Erasing E-waste
Waste/Recycling/Environmental - N/A, NY, US
Erasing E-waste Employees
Erasing E-waste Senior Management
Erasing E-waste Details
Founded in the summer of 2017, Erasing E-waste is a student-led NGO with an emphasis on sustainability and environmental consciousness. Our members hail from Staten Island, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and despite the vast differences of suburbia and the city-life, we share one common goal: to erase E-waste. Beginning in August of 2017, founder Justin Shnayder organized an E-waste drive in the Princes Bay Area of Staten Island. Since then, the initiative expanded into the New Dorp area of Staten Island as well, with one such drive being held later that following year. Since then, we have expanded into Staten Island Technical High School, where it has become affiliated with the Environmental Sustainability Club, which Justin Shnayder likewise founded. 30+ students contributed to research, tracking, and policy analysis in a project which culminated in a school-wide E-was the drive that recycled over 500+ pounds of E-waste. With the COVID-19 pandemic, New York City was forced to remove many government-subsidized programs, regardless of importance. The E-Waste Curbside Pickup Program with the Department of Sanitation of New York was not immune. Since learning about this, we have vehemently fought to resurrect this program by contacting local government officials urging them to reconsider this decision, as well as offering alternative, temporary solutions for Staten Islanders who have no means of recycling E-waste, such as additional E-waste drives. Our primary goals heading into the 2020-21 FY are expansion into other schools. We hope to start "affialliate chapters" at other institutions in an effort to bring light to this crisis, with the ultimate objective of hosting more E-waste drives in other neighborhoods.
