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Electronic Recycling Drive December 1st in Hastings

The Hastings High School Environmental Club will be partnering with Per Scholas, a Bronx based not-for-profit organization, to hold an electronic recycling drive from 12p.m. to 3p.m. on Saturday December 1st at the Farragut Middle School Playground off of Hillside Avenue. Per Scholas will responsibly recycle your electronics and will use the funds generated from recycling to provide technology education, access, training and job placement to low-income communities in the Bronx. Come to the drive with a completed tax deduction sheet (attached in a pdf) so that a Per Scholas official can sign off on it. Donations will be accepted at the drive to offset a nominal truck fee and to support Per Scholas’ anti-poverty work.

If you would like to learn about the electronic waste crisis, e-Stewards (Per Scholas is e-Steward certified), a certification that holds electronic recycling companies to the highest standards of environmental responsibility and worker protection, explains it here: http://e-stewards.org/the-e-waste-crisis/.

Electronics To Bring:

  • computers (desktops/towers)
  • laptops
  • monitors (flat screens/CRT)
  • printers
  • scanners
  • fax machines
  • routers
  • hubs/switch
  • docking stations
  • drives/floppy or disk
  • dvd/cassette players
  • modems
  • hard drives
  • office telephone
  • cell phones (blackberry/pda)
  • server
  • ups
  • zip drives
  • peripherals (keyboard, mice, cables, cd's, vga cables)

Electronics Not To Bring:

  • televisions
  • microwave
  • heaters
  • stereo 

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jobobg2 May 19, 2013 at 11:23 am
I'd like to Thank everyone that came out to support the scholarship fund. We were able to raise overRead More $500. for the day.I also want to thank the students that came out to help. Bob Galinski,club advisor,Hastings schools
Renee Petro May 12, 2013 at 01:46 pm
The letter does not seem to mention if they have personal experience as an educator or as a parentRead More with kids now, kids past years or kids future years in the Irvington School District. Sometimes the perspective is different if you have lived the experience with kids in the Irvington School District. I have three kids -- one graduate last year and is at Cornell University, one is grade nine and one is grade three. All three got great teachers, small class size and extra help or enrichment as needed. I think the arts programs can be expanded -- music, drama, fine arts (both in classes and electives plus stipends to pay teachers for clubs and after school activities). However, this is a school district that values having small class size and keeping strong all the academics core subjects required for graduation and college plus making a priority sports opportunities middle school through high schools at all levels and types of sports. If you are high achiever it works grades k-12; if you are a child with special education needs or learning issues needs or extra help needs it works too. The average student is the one who is often forgotten in Irvington School District since they just do their thing in school, after school activities and move from grade to grade uneventful but nothing that will be memorable at least in my experience.
Teleman April 2, 2013 at 02:35 pm
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Andromachos April 2, 2013 at 10:50 am
When employers are offering less and less health insurance, more people are self insured orRead More uninsured and are restricted to buying policies as individuals. With the cost at over $ 1,500 per month for standard, full coverage for a family of 4, it is no wonder there are so many uninsured or partially insured ( emergency/hospital care only).