Take them to the drop off center, unless the company includes pick up services.
The rush to provide newborn drop-off centers is certainly a misallocation of effort.
Some towns and cities sponsor drop-off centers or periodic collection events.
Satellite drop-off centers for donations established in Fort Greene, Park Slope, Williamsburg, and Bed-Stuy.
The E.P.A. said it would schedule several cellphone collections in 2008 and would post a searchable list of cellphone drop-off centers on Web sites, including epa.gov.
Although children left at drop-off centers would, in the end, probably be adopted, the legal path would not be smooth.
Proponents of the drop-off centers also ignore the obvious fact that parents can legally give up their children now -- though not in secrecy -- by putting them up for adoption.
United Parcel Service, which recently announced plans to expand its network of drop-off centers by testing storefront locations in suburban areas, might use those stores to support e-commerce companies.
Some child advocates contend that state-sanctioned drop-off centers for infants could hinder the process of placing abandoned newborns in adoptive homes by complicating the legal child custody issues because an abandoned child has no identifiable guardian.
To get there we need bottle deposit laws that require all beverage makers to take responsibility for reaching the highest possible levels of recycling, and that finance the range of recycling options — drop-off centers, buy-back centers and curbside pick-up.
If Gov. George E. Pataki signs a bill passed last week by the New York Assembly and earlier by the State Senate, parents in New York will be able to abandon unwanted newborn babies at drop-off centers without fear of prosecution.
