Recycling centers in NYC

Have you ever thought of getting a bike in NY or are you thinking of getting one? Great coincidence!

This is the bike map of NY:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2011_bikemap.pdf

found in this website:

http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/bikeways

A e-waste recycling exprerience from the backstage

Last time, I went to volunteer in a e-waste event organized by the Lower East Side Ecology Center- made possible by the most prominent volunteering programme in NY: New York Cares. From 1pm to 3pm, we were 4 volunteers helping out the 5 or 6 very nice workers of the organization in the Upper West Side. Despite that day was very cold and snowy and the lack of informative signs about the event, many people participated and good mood and warmth were dominating our crew. As we were in front of the YMCA, people could see what we were doing and we could enjoy free coffee at the YMCA whenever we wanted.

We were settled along the pavement with some big containers. As far as I can remember there were 3 and people could drop their computer(s), hard drive(s), monitor(s), and many other things! The participants were either coming on foot, by car, and bicycle. Everyone seemed to have got prepared for taking good riddance of their electronic devices in a earth-friendly way.

The NYCares volunteers, we were at a table for having people filled in a short survey and dealing out information about the orgnization, the next events, or tax beneficial form. That was nice! People were very grateful to us and as far as I'm concerned their great mood and thanks made me feel good, encouraged to pursue such actions in the future.

At the end, we got maybe 12 tones of devices.

Here's the organization's website: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/nyregion/12recycle.html