Recycling batteries and electronics
Jun. 21st, 2007 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
proggrrlI just found out some good news for anyone trying to recycle these things in NYC:
- Whole Foods will accept household dry cell batteries, which leach deadly chemicals into landfill if not properly disposed of.
- NYC has twice-annual electronics drop off days, the next one is September 2007.
- The Lower East Side Ecology Center has more frequent drop-off events where they leave a huge dumpster out for a couple of days and you can bring used electronics.
- If you have a NYC drivers license and valid vehicle registration, you can drop batteries and auto-related dangerous substances (transmission fluid, mercury, tires, etc) at these locations.
Why go through all this trouble? Dead batteries, computers, cell phones, TVs, VCRs, etc, often contain dangerous chemicals in their components. Many of these components can be extracted and reused - but at the very least they will be removed and properly disposed of. So you are recycling and preventing pollution.
- Whole Foods will accept household dry cell batteries, which leach deadly chemicals into landfill if not properly disposed of.
- NYC has twice-annual electronics drop off days, the next one is September 2007.
- The Lower East Side Ecology Center has more frequent drop-off events where they leave a huge dumpster out for a couple of days and you can bring used electronics.
- If you have a NYC drivers license and valid vehicle registration, you can drop batteries and auto-related dangerous substances (transmission fluid, mercury, tires, etc) at these locations.
Why go through all this trouble? Dead batteries, computers, cell phones, TVs, VCRs, etc, often contain dangerous chemicals in their components. Many of these components can be extracted and reused - but at the very least they will be removed and properly disposed of. So you are recycling and preventing pollution.
