Announcements

Community Recycling Events

September 5, 2026

We offer Community Recycling Events in all five boroughs to accept and properly recycle unwanted electronics and textiles. We also offer additional services at a select number of these events including reuse cafe collaborations where you can learn how to repair and reuse clothing, appliances and electronics as well as occasional paint collection and paper shredding. Check out the list below to explore what services we’re bringing to your neighborhood!

Events with additional services are annotated with an asterisk**

All events are 10am to 2pm, rain or shine, unless otherwise noted.

Upcoming events

October 17
Little Neck * paper shredding
Woodside

October 18
Jackson Heights
Borough Park

October 21
Forest Hills *From 3PM-7PM

October 24
Corona 
Park Slope

October 25
Brooklyn Heights
Upper West Side

October 31
Upper West Side-Amsterdam Avenue *From 12PM-4PM

November 1
Flushing **paint collection

November 7
Bushwick
Middle Village

November 8
Fresh Meadows
Harlem*From 12PM-4PM

November 14
Greenpoint
Carnegie Hills

November 15
Lower East Side

November 21
Bayside 
Jamiaca*paper shredding

December 5
Park Slope

December 6
Cunningham Park

The following working and non-working consumer electronic equipment will be accepted:

  • Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes)
  • Monitors (CRT and flatscreen)
  • Handheld devices (smartphones, tablets, MP3 players, e-readers, etc.)
  • Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.)
  • Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.)
  • Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.)
  • Printers, scanners, fax machines
  • TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players
  • Digital converter boxes, cable/satellite receivers
  • Video game consoles and accessories
  • Cell phones, pagers, PDAs
  • Audio-visual equipment (cameras, microphones, stereo equipment, etc.)

The following textiles will be accepted at most events unless otherwise indicated:

  • Clothing
  • Accessories (shoes, hats, bags, gloves)
  • Household textiles (towels, curtains, bedding)
  • Clean rags
  • Ripped and damaged material

NOTE: We no longer accept batteries (except lead-acid batteries from uninterrupted power supplies systems). Rechargeable batteries can be dropped off for recycling at any store that sells them. Media, such as disks, DVDs, VHS, cassette tapes, etc. need to be be recycled by greendisk.com.

 

We would like to thank the New York City Department of Sanitation and the New York City Council for making these programs possible.