MIC:
Nestled in west Brooklyn beside the charmingly putrid Gowanus Canal and the hip Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club is a massive, ramshackle warehouse. Stretching nearly halfway down the block, it announces its presence with a homemade sandwich board and a brightly painted exterior.
Officially, it’s called the Lower East Side Ecology Center Electronic Waste Recycling Warehouse. Casually, it’s known as the Gowanus E-Waste Warehouse, and it’s the place that thousands of pieces of discarded electronics — old and new, junky and shiny, big and small — call home.
Don’t lie – some of you are planning a trip to there right now, aren’t you?
I won’t lie. I would go if I could. I love poking around in recycling centres.
Every couple years I drag my old stuff out to their pickups outside TekServ. Would be funny to try to find one of my old computers.. I need that ONE file I forgot to back up…. 🙂
I didn’t know about the warehouse… absolutely need to check it out now.
If only it didn’t involve a $20 round-trip commute. I have a bucket of e-waste sitting here that shouldn’t go into a landfill.
The fire hazard of the batteries alone is amazing to contemplate. And the carcinogens!