July 2010: Mandatory Electronics Recycling in NYC

[andy]

There was no shortage of curb-side scores when I lived in CA, despite the fact that there was mandatory electronics recycling. It also meant that people were more likely to try to sell, or give away something since they couldn't just put it at the side of the road. The electronics recycling companies were another good place to find things that would have otherwise been thrown away (although their attitudes varied greatly).

The way I figure it, for every curb-side score, there's probably hundreds of things around the city that I never know about that just get collected with the garbage.