Digital Analog Therapy - Nationwide Repairs, Brooklyn, NYC, NY

Since our company is based in Brooklyn, NY, we thought we would post information on electronics recycling programs for our area.  If your not located in the New York metro area, and want to do your part in properly recycling your electronic waste, just google the following "Electronics Recycling, Your City, Your state" - at the very least you'll find a private company which will offer a drop off locations.  In the larger metro areas, some private companies will pick up your electronics waste at no cost.

From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

In the early 1960's a book published by Vance Packard known as THE WASTE MAKERS - shed light on a dirty little secret with the Automobile and other consumer product manufacturer's... PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE.

What is PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE?
In a nut shell, it's the purposful failure of a product.  Primarily focused on the consumer market, this concept was originally developed during the 1930's when a engineer working for General Electric proposed increasing sales of flashlight lamps by increasing their efficiency and shortening their life. Instead of lasting through three batteries he suggested that each lamp last only as long as one battery.

The use of electronic products has grown substantially over the past two decades, changing the way and the speed in which we communicate and how we get information and entertainment. Our growing reliance on electronics is illustrated by some remarkable figures. According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Americans own approximately 24 electronic products per household*.