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Electronic Left-Overs

Thursday, January 04, 2007

Christine Datz-Romero, executive director of the Lower East Side Ecology Center
- on recycling electronic waste in New York City
and
Giles Slade, author, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America (Harvard University Press, 2006)
- explains the development of disposable products
plus
Oladele Osibanjo, executive director of the Basel Convention Regional Coordinating Centre for Africa for Training & Technology Transfer in Hazardous Waste Management at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- on trying to deal with e-waste in Nigeria

Made to Break available for purchase at Amazon.com

Event
Electronic Waste Recycling Drop-Off Event
Sunday, January 7th, 2007, 8am to 4pm
Union Square Park - North Plaza 17th St & Broadway

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