Electronics Recycling Event Will Return To Forest Park

Maya Kaufman
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FOREST PARK, QUEENS — State and city officials will host an electronics recycling event in Forest Park next month.

The e-waste recycling event, hosted in partnership with the Lower East Side Ecology Center, will take place in the Forest Park Bandshell parking lot from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Nov. 15, according to a news release.

The event was originally scheduled for October but was postponed as COVID-19 cases started to rise in the area.

Electronics that will be accepted during the event are:

· Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes);

· Monitors (CRT and flat screen);

· 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 under 50 pounds, scanners, fax-machines, etc.;

· TVs, VCRs, DVRs, DVD & Blu-ray Players;

· Digital Converter Boxes, Cable/Satellite Receivers;

· Audio-visual equipment (cameras, microphones, etc.);

· Video-game consoles and accessories;

· Cell phones, pagers, PDAs.

Participants will be required to wear masks when in the parking lot and stay in their vehicles as much as possible.

This article originally appeared on the Forest Hills Patch