Lower East Side Ecology Center Opens Permanent E-Waste Drop-Off Depot in Gowanus
Posted By Molly Cotter On February 1, 2012 @ 10:22 am In Brooklyn,News,Recycling and Composting | No Comments
The days of planning your weekend so you can finally lug that hefty old computer to the occasional e-waste drop off are over. The Lower East Side Ecology Center [4], host of many electronic waste collections, has just opened a permanent drop-off site in Brooklyn. Grab your faxes, printers, scanners, even cell phones and pagers and head on down to the new warehouse at 469 President Street in Gowanus [5] to help the nonprofit’s recycling efforts.
The new drop-off center [6] can accommodate nearly 260,000 pounds of e-waste [7] and will accept deliveries from homes, small businesses, and nonprofits from all over the metro area. The site will also include a refurbishing and reselling center that will allow people to purchase repaired keyboards, motherboards, and other electronic parts. Furthermore, Christine Datz-Romero, the executive director of the the Lower East Side Ecology Center [8] says the refurbishing program “will generate jobs and job training opportunities right here in the city.”
+ Lower East Side Ecology Center [4]
via New York Times [9]
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[4] Lower East Side Ecology Center: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/
[5] Gowanus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowanus,_Brooklyn
[6] new drop-off center: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=237&Itemid=120
[7] e-waste: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72&Itemid=78#What can I bring?
[8] Lower East Side Ecology Center: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=41
[9] New York Times: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/an-e-waste-depot-for-brooklyn/
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