neighborhood computer and e-waste recycling day

Subject: neighborhood computer and e-waste recycling day
Date: 8/10/2005 9:35:45 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: janlev@msn.com
To: reysmontj@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)


Dear Jordi,

I would appreciate your putting the attached flyer on your blog.

Thanks.

Joan Levine

Per Scholas, Inc

&
The Morningside Heights/WH Sanitation Coalition

COMPUTER & E-WASTE
RECYCLING
DAY

Saturday, August 20TH, 2005
10:00 am � 3:00 pm
(at the Grant Houses� Block Party on La Salle Street east of Broadway)

Give your old electronic devices a second useful life.
Keep their POISONOUS CHEMICALS out of landfills.


WHY SHOULD YOU RECYCLE YOUR OLD ELECTRONICS?

Electronic waste contributes around 10% of the volume to landfills and approximately 70% of the toxicity. Yet there is no mention of repairing and re-using computers and cell phones in NYC's proposed Waste Management plan.

Computers and other electronics contain hazardous substances which can get into ground water and drinking water. CRT screens contains 3 to 5 pounds of lead. Some 300 million to 600 million personal computers in the US could be headed to dumps in the next few years�many of them overseas.

Up to 80 percent of old computers end up being exported to places like China or Vietnam, where children and adults pick apart the toxic innards for $1 a day.

WHAT CAN BE RECYCLED ON AUGUST 20th ?
Working and non-working computers, servers, monitors, printers, laptops, copiers, fax machines, scanners, TVs (no wooden consoles please), keyboards, mice, cables,

docking stations, battery backups, storage devices, routers, radios, phones, cell phones,

stereo equipment, CD players.

Donated cell phones (must have charger) will be given to women�s shelters.

WHERE WILL THE ELECTRONICS GO?
To Per Scholas, a nonprofit, organization in the South Bronx with three primary goals:
� bring computers to technologically deprived children and families at the lowest possible cost
� train disadvantaged community residents to become computer technicians
� provide environmentally responsible recycling of end-of-life computer equipment in
their EPA Approved Recycling Facility.

Visit Per Scholas at www.PerScholas.org