If you're wondering what to do with your old, obsolete or broken tech gadgets, an event in Queens had the answer, recycle them. NY1's Matt McClure reports.

Aramus Troche brought a bag full of outdated electronics to the Queens Botanical Garden on Sunday.

"That was a portable DVD player, a phone, and several chargers that just ran out of charge. They weren't able to charge anything, so they're done!" said the Queens resident.

He was one of dozens who turned up to get rid of their broken, obsolete or unused electronics at an e-waste recycling event sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

"We have all these piles of garbage here in New York. Recycling, I think, is a great way to, you know, bring down the garbage," Troche said.

The center holds about 60 events like this one throughout the five boroughs each year.

Organizers say more people started showing up after a city law went into effect last year making it illegal to leave electronics at the curb for pickup.

In 2015, they recycled more than one million pounds of e-waste including computers, printers and TVs.

"Even CFL and LED lightbulbs we take in. Anything related to electronics we can recycle or refurbish and sell in our reuse store," said Sinyee Tan, Development Director of the Center.

Not only is e-waste recycling the law of the land, it's also good for the environment. Organizers here say that an old TV like this could contain between four and eight pounds of lead.

"That's a lot of heavy metals that electronics contribute to our waste stream, so getting that... out of the waste stream and out of the landfills and incinerators is tremendously important,” said Christine Datz-Romero, Executive Director of the Center.

Participants at Sunday's event, like Joel Cohen,  agreed.

"Every two or three years, these items become obsolete and need to be replaced. It's inherently a problem of technology and it generates so much waste and the average homeowner doesn't know what to do with it," said the Jamaica Estates resident.

"Basically you don't want to throw these things out in the garbage. It's not good for the environment and I'll recycle everything that I can," added Nancy Rojas, an Astoria resident.

For more information on future e-waste recycling events, head to www.lesecologycenter.org.