Addabbo and Pheffer Amato bring e-waste recycling event to the Rockawaways

If you need to safely and legally dispose of any unwanted or broken electronics, State Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr. and Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato are partnering with the Lower East Side Ecology Center to co-host a free e-waste recycling event in the Rockaways next month.

On Saturday, September 8, Addabbo, Pheffer Amato and the Lower East Side Ecology Center will be at St. Camillus, located at 99-15 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The trucks for recycling will be located in the parish’s back parking lot off Shorefront Parkway, between 99^th and 100^th Streets.

“I always enjoy hosting these free e-waste recycling events to give people in my district the ability to get rid of their unwanted or broken electronics without facing a fine for putting them with their normal garbage,” Addabbo said. “I am glad we can bring one out to the Rockaways to allow our constituents to recycle their electronics without having to travel to Forest Hills where I co-host a big recycling event. I would like to thank Stacey for joining me, and the staff at the Lower East Side Ecology Center for helping to make this event — and the other recycling events I co-host throughout the year — possible.”

“Electronic waste is a major environmental hazard.  Too many people just drop computer parts and electronics in the garbage. If e-waste isn’t processed the right way, it can poison sanitation workers and our water supply,” Pheffer Amato said. “That’s why events like these are so important, and why I am so excited to partner with Senator Addabbo and the Lower East Side Ecology Center to bringing this event to Rockaway!”

Lower East Side Ecology Center will be accepting working and non-working computers, monitors, printers/scanners, keyboards, mice, cables, TVs, VCRs & DVD players, phones, audio/visual equipment, cell phones and PDA’s.

For more information about this event, call Addabbo’s office at 718-738-1111 or Pheffer Amato’s office at 718-945-9550.