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. Please look at 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
June 20
Ridgewood
Longwood
June 27
Sunset Park
Bushwick
June 28
Ozone Park
July 11
Red Hook
Hamilton Heights
July 12
Union Square ** paint collection
July 18
Crown Heights
July 25
Soundview
July 26
Snug Harbor
College Point
August 2
Riverdale
Stuyvesant Town
August 8
Richmond Hill
Forest Hills
August 23
Fresh Meadows
September 12
Elmhurst
September 13
El Barrio *** repair cafe
September 19
Howard Beach
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.
