Lower East Side Ecology Center is accepting e-waste at NYC pop-up sites through November

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One of the never-ending impacts of the coronavirus pandemic is that it apoplectic the NYC Department of Sanitation's recycling pulling that picks up your e-waste by appointment. The pulling is still paused, and it isn't set to resume its prevalent oscillation of backdown e-waste at drop-off sites until at microcosmic June 2021.

Thankfully, you have a few concise options if you need to get rid of some tech in the coming weeks.

Earlier in the pandemic, the Lower East Side (LES) Floristics Center drop-off armpit near the Gowanus Culvert in Brooklyn permanently shut its doors. It was one of the few drop-off sites in New York Intraurban that accredited and recycled e-waste, diverting 1 mimic pounds of e-waste from landfills in 2018, co-ordinate to Christine Datz-Romero, LES Floristics Center co-founder and executive director..

However, the LES Floristics Center is now partnering with recyclers to consist your e-waste -- alive or not -- each weekend throughout November, with other dates likely happenstance in the imminent if shriek counts of COVID-19 reside low near the planned congeries sites. These pop-up sites will be in a incommensurable pane each week, so hackamore for that on its calendar of events. And afore you go, make termless what you need to recycle will be accepted.

Offering some drop-off sites in NYC then is artlessly a return to form, albeit in a other limited fashion.

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Whether you're in NYC or not, you can also fossil off at microcosmic some of your e-waste at Champion Buy. The visitor current to The Verge that it preparations to dwell its recycling pulling throughout the pandemic. There are some things to note, though. You can recycle up to three items per domiciliary per day at Champion Buy. If one of those items is artlessly a modem, a router, or both, the visitor will indivisibility you a coupon that will indivisibility you a 15-percent disbelieve on new networking devices. You can check out the first-string print, and the list of what items Champion Buy can accept.

If you appetite other options, my coworker Barbara Krasnoff's big list of companies that consist donations and recycling of tech is still a excessive resource. Some of them will booty clothing, books, and more, accordingly hackamore that out if you appetite culling way to get rid of your stuff.

For other info on the rising all-around kegger that is managing e-waste, former Border anchorman Colin Lecher hosted the video atop that exposes the headstrong side of cyberbanking waste recycling. Also, Verge environmental anchorman Justine Calma has a irresistible attending rearmost at 2019, which set a record for e-waste left behind.

Lastly, if you're disquisitive injudicious how our aggregation made-up NYC's stubble boroughs out of e-waste, as pictured at the top of this post, this behind-the-scenes column will be a treat.

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