Electronic recycling?

You JUST missed one today at Tekserve...the only one on the LES Ecology Center's current calendar (they're the ones who run those community events usually).

You can use these guys, they take stuff (but they'll charge you for the pickup): http://4thbin.com/

You could always bring them to the Goodwill on Livingston St

http://www.goodwillny.org/Find_goodwill_detail.aspx?latlong=40.688935,-73.983983&sid=74&zip=11003

You can take them to any Best Buy for recycling. Also many organizations will mail you a pre-paid envelope and you just pack them and ship them.

Sometimes this e-waste is shipped under the guise of humanitarian reasons, arguing that old technology can still help bridge the gap between first and third world. Slow laptops which are not wanted in the United States, for example, might make a big difference to someone living in Africa. However, much of this equipment actually arrives in an unusable and broken state, and people desperate for money try to harvest usable materials such as valuable metals from donated equipment. Unfortunately, most of these individuals lack training in how to handle the dangerous materials used in electronics manufacture, and expose themselves and their communities to toxic chemicals and metals.

In other cases, genuine e-waste is sent to third world countries, by the shipping container load. Many companies which claim to be “recycling” e-waste are actually sending the pollution to other countries. Piles of unwanted consumer electronics accumulate by the side of the road and in third world landfills, leaching toxins into the soil and groundwater which cause crop deficiencies, birth defects, and serious illnesses. A handful of environmentally responsible companies have begun to speak out against this practice, and are taking action to dispose of e-waste safely, assisted by governments, which have started demanding that e-waste processing fees accompany the sale of new consumer electronics.

http://www.wisegeek.com/why-is-e-waste-dangerous.htm