An e-xcellent way to recycle your e-waste this Sunday on Avenue A

Time for some spring cleaning. 

This Sunday, you may bring your working — and non-working! — electronics to Tompkins Square Park for a recycling event hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center. 

The recycling occurs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (rain or shine!) on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street. 

Items you may drop off: 

• Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes) 

• Monitors (CRT and flatscreen) Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.) 

• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.) 

• Tablets and e-readers Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.) 

• Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax machines, etc.

• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players 

• Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers 

• Portable music players 

• Audio-visual equipment 

• Video-games 

• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs

• Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

You may NOT drop off items such as Citi Bike docking stations and LinkNYC kiosks. The LES Ecology Center has info on what you CAN'T drop off here.

Reminders: Recycle your e-waste today

Reps from the the Lower East Side Ecology Center will be on Avenue A (between Ninth Street and 10th Street) today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ... where they'll be accepting your old (or new maybe) electronics.

And as noted on Friday, here's the list of items they'll accept during the e-waste-apalooza:

• Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)
• Monitors (CRT and flatscreen)
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
• Tablets and e-readers
• Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
• Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc
• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players
• Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
• Portable music players
• Audio-visual equipment
• Video games
• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
• Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

There are some e-waste items that we accept, but we charge a recycling fee for:
Media such as CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and cassette tapes
Computer battery backup systems (Uninterruptible Power Supply [UPS])

FAQ page here.

Recycle your e-waste Sunday on Avenue A

[EVG office photo from March 2018]

This Sunday, you may bring your working — and non-working! — electronics to Tompkins Square Park for a recycling event hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

The recycling action happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (rain or shine!) on Avenue A between Ninth Street and 10th Street.

And here is the list of items they'll accept:

• Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)
• Monitors (CRT and flatscreen)
• Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
• Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
• Tablets and e-readers
• Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
• Printers under 100 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc
• TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players
• Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers
• Portable music players
• Audio-visual equipment
• Video games
• Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
• Telecommunication (phones, answering machines, etc.)

There are some e-waste items that we accept, but we charge a recycling fee for:
Media such as CDs, DVDs, VHS tapes, and cassette tapes
Computer battery backup systems (Uninterruptible Power Supply [UPS])

FAQ page here.

If you can't bring your unwanted electronics here, then at least leave the items in a public place where someone can photograph them for a future EVG post.

Finally, someone who will gladly accept your unwanted electronics

Sorry for zero notice on this... a reader just shared that this was going on today via the Lower East Side Ecology Center...

March 20, 10 am - 4 pm, Tompkins Square Park Avenue A between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street

Bring your unwanted electronics to our e-waste collection event.

We will accept working and non-working:

• Computers, monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, cables,
• TVs (all sizes),
• VCR & DVD players,
• Phones, audio/visual equipment,
• Video games
• Cell phones

Legally dump your old electronics today at Tompkins Square Park

The e-waste recycling event is underway on Avenue A between East Ninth Street and East 10th Street … until 4 p.m.


[Photo by EVG reader Robert F.]

The e-wasters are accepting: Computers, monitors, printers, TVs… and everything listed on the flyer…

It's your chance to properly dispose of this!


(And this isn't what the cranes are on Avenue A right now…