this store will take your electronics for electronics recycling any time they're open,
weekdays 9am - 6pm
saturdays 10am - 4pm
that's pretty impressive. the only other way i know how to recycle electronics is to wait until new york city has electronics recycling collection events, once every few months, and it's not even that easy to find info on it on their website.
The Mac Support Store
168 7th Street, @ 3rd ave, 2nd Floor
Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11215
map
718-312-8341
support@macsupportstore.com
if not disposed of properly, all our disposed electronics, ipods, ipads, phones, laptops, which are made of heavy metals and toxic plastics, designed for obsolescence and disposal every year or two, end up in the ocean, landfills, leaking various carcinogenic toxins, or in 3rd world countries where they're piled up endlessly in villages, being stripped apart for copper, also leaking toxins. actual printed paper isn't quite so bad.
this is definitely not the only media coverage of this type of stuff, but this photo slide show on nytimes.com is amazing.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html
the image above is from the series, there more photos are on the website of the photographer, pieter hugo.
http://www.pieterhugo.com/
there are various youtube videos covering the issue.
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