Recycling Electronics: Catching on in BK

For my awesome series on Babelgum, New in New York, I wanted to find some people who are doing something good for the environment but also good for my home of Brooklyn. It didn’t take long to find an awesome electronics recycling drive going on at PS10 in Park Slope. I subscribe to the Mac Support Store’s email list, and they sponsored the event. Easy peasy. So I went to check it out.

Honestly? I thought it would be the guy from the Mac Support Store, some nice Park Slope resident whose kid goes to PS10, and me, with a lot of silence. I was incredibly amazed to watch as tons of people came by with old computers, phones, tape recorders, video games…just tons and tons of old electronics, all to be picked up and recycled by ERevival.

I brought a few items to recycle myself, which made me feel good, I admit. But what really made me feel good was seeing so many people participate. It made this cynical human feel better. So before you plop that old PC tower on the curb, take a peek at the ERevival website to see if you can do better than that.