Recycle old Roosevelt Island Computers and Other Electronic Devices

Tekserve's Second Annual Electronic Recycling Event This Weekend!

This weekend Tekserve and the Lower East Side Ecology Center are holding an eWaste recycling event. Here's some more information:

Tekserve and The Lower East Side Ecology Center are co-sponsoring an electronic recycling drive. New York City area residents can properly recycle their electronic waste free of charge on Saturday and Sunday, April 26th & 27th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Monday, April 28th from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The collection point will be at 119 West 23rd Street in front of our store.

Items that can be recycled include:

• Working and non-working:
• Computers (laptop & desktop),
• Servers, mainframes
• Monitors
• Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, etc.)
• Components (hard drives, CD Roms, circuit boards, power supplies, etc,)
• TVs,VCR & DVD Players
• Audio visual devices
• Radios/Stereos
• Cell Phones, pagers
• PDAs,Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)
• Media (floppies, cd’s, zips, VHS tapes)**

On a somewhat related note, the Socrates Sculpture Park, site of the experimental Roosevelt Island Shuttle Slingshot, will be holding an exhibition titled "Waste Not Want Not" from May 4 - August 3, 2008.