The city has announced that it will grow its pilot curbside e-waste program into a permanent recycling endeavor across four boroughs. Started on Staten Island in October 2016, the program has already collected over 400,000 pounds of electronic waste that could have otherwise been filtered into landfills.
鈥淚t鈥檚 so important to our zero waste goals to recycle everything we can, including electronics鈥攂ut we also need to make it easier for our residents to do so, and that鈥檚 what this program is all about,鈥� Mayor de Blasio said in a statement announcing the program鈥檚 expansion.
As a part of that expansion, curbside e-waste recycling will become permanent on Staten Island, and will expand into the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Queens over the next three years. The expansion will roll out first in North Brooklyn, in most borough neighborhoods from Boerum Hill and north, starting this fall.
To participate in the recycling program, residents of one- to nine- apartment buildings must make an appointment through 311 or through the聽city鈥檚 website. From there residents choose an appointment slot and indicate how many items up to 20 they鈥檇 like to recycle. Items for recycling must be placed curbside in order to be collected. E-waste recycling聽has been available in larger apartment buildings with ten units or more since 2013.
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