{"id":2114,"date":"2010-09-02T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2010-09-02T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T17:18:38","slug":"44th-ward-electronics-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2010\/09\/02\/44th-ward-electronics-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"44th Ward Electronics Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use a lot of technology and end up having a lot of unused or broken electronics and I have to figure out what to do with them.\u00a0 The<strong> 44th Ward<\/strong> is having a <strong>electronics recycling pickup day<\/strong> on <strong>September 11, 2010<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is what the alderman had to say about it in an e-mail blast:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">On Saturday, September 11, our office, in conjunction with PC Rebuilders and Recyclers, will be conducting an electronic recycling pickup day. Anytime before 8am, residents can place electronic equipment in front of their homes to be picked up and taken to a recycling facility. Items to be collected include computers and computer equipment, TVs, DVD Players, VCRs, MP3 players, video equipment, and mobile phones. Additionally, residents can drop off electronic recyclables on this date between the hours of 8am and noon at the 44th Ward Streets and Sanitation office (1501 W. School St.).<\/p>\n<p>I go to school at Northwestern University who also has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northwestern.edu\/uservices\/office\/computer\/student.html\">e-waste recycling program for students<\/a>.\u00a0 The city also has a <a href=\"http:\/\/egov.cityofchicago.org\/city\/webportal\/portalContentItemAction.do?blockName=Recycling+Chicago%2fHousehold+Chemicals+%26+Computer+Recycling%2fI+Want+To&amp;deptMainCategoryOID=-536897322&amp;channelId=0&amp;programId=0&amp;entityName=Recycling+Chicago&amp;topChannelName=SubAgency&amp;contentOID=536942446&amp;Failed_Reason=Invalid+timestamp,+engine+has+been+restarted&amp;contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&amp;com.broadvision.session.new=Yes&amp;Failed_Page=%2fwebportal%2fportalContentItemAction.do&amp;context=dept\">drop-off facility<\/a> at 1150 N. North Branch Street.\u00a0 But, if you have functioning computers, I think the best place to donate them would be <a href=\"http:\/\/freegeekchicago.org\/donate\">FreeGeek Chicago<\/a>, a &#8220;not-for-profit community organization that  recycles used computers and parts to provide functional computers,  education, internet access and job skills training to those who want  them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s probably better to recycle computers than to send them to the landfill, I just saw <a title=\"A Global Graveyard for Dead Computers in Ghana\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2010\/08\/04\/magazine\/20100815-dump.html\">a photo essay in the New York Times Magazine that showed the reality of what happens to e-waste at one site in Ghana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Additional information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ewastecalendar.com\/events\/index.php?com=detail&amp;eID=1261\">More information about the 44th Ward Electronics Collection Day<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewastecalendar.com\/events\/link\/SaveEvent.php?eID=1261&amp;cID=3\">iCal file for the event<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/mosmancouncil\/\">Mosman Council<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mosmancouncil\/3361175057\/\">Flickr<\/a> using a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/2.0\/deed.en\">CC-BY-NC-ND<\/a> license.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use a lot of technology and end up having a lot of unused or broken electronics and I have to figure out what to do with them.\u00a0 The 44th Ward is having a electronics recycling pickup day on September 11, 2010.\u00a0 This is what the alderman had to say about it in an e-mail&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2010\/09\/02\/44th-ward-electronics-recycling\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">44th Ward Electronics Recycling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[735],"tags":[20543,20544,786,20542,185],"class_list":["post-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chicago","tag-44th-ward","tag-electronics","tag-lakeview","tag-recycling","tag-sustainability","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-y6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2115,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions\/2115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}