Office of Recycling Outreach and Education A program of GrowNYC www.GrowNYC.org |
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. In this issue: 1. Holiday Planning for the Planet 2. Recycle Your Holiday Tree 3.Electronics Recycling Update 4. Plastics Recycling Update 5. Harlem Co-op Goes Green by Recycling Old Clothes 6. OROE to Expand Clothing & Textile Recycling Collections |
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. *Holiday Planning for the Planet* Purchasing gifts? Choose minimally packaged items made with recycled content and give items that will be treasured, not thrown out before the next holiday season. Remember to wrap it recyclable by using paper gift wrap or a nice paper gift bag. A convenient reusable bag is the gift wrap that keeps on giving. You can also add a please recycle note to remind the lucky receiver to recycle or reuse. [Pictured: Bottle Tree of used bottles, recycled wood and energy efficient lights by Brooklyn artist Matthew Myers] For more tips on keeping your holidays green and merry, visit NYCWasteLess. |
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Recycle Your Tree! |
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MulchFest Saturday, January 10 and Sunday, January 11, 2009 10am-2pm Click for Citywide locations |
Department of Sanitation Tree Pick-Ups If you cant make it to MulchFest, DSNY will conduct Christmas tree collection from Monday, January 5, 2009 through Friday, January 16. Simply place your tree on the curb free of ornaments, stands and plastic bags. |
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Green Screens a Success Thanks to all who spread the word, attended and especially to the volunteers who braved the wind, rain and cold to attend the Green Screens two-day, five-borough electronics recycling event. 359,000 pounds of e-waste were collected for recycling on November 15th and 16th. For more information read the press release. |
Next Electronics Recycling Collection: Sunday, January 4th, 10am - 4pm Union Square Park, North Plaza (17th Street & Broadway) Sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center For more info visit www.lesecologycenter.org <!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--> <!--[endif]--> |
New Program for Recycling Brita Filters and Other #5 Plastics Preserve, a recycled products company that makes toothbrushes, colanders and more has announced new partnerships that will help keep more plastics out of the landfill. Beginning on or around January 5, 2009, Brita water pitcher filters and CLEAN plastic items stamped with a #5, such as yogurt cups, can be mailed to Preserve or dropped off at participating Whole Foods Markets, so start saving those plastics! For more information visit the Preserve Gimme 5 website. |
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[image courtesy of Preserve Gimme5] |
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Harlem Co-Op Collects Tons with In-Building Textile Recycling Program OROE introduced the Renaissance to Wearable Collections, a textile recycling company helping to reduce NYCs waste while giving back to charitable organizations. A storage closet in the buildings laundry room was converted into the textiles recycling area using bins and signs provided by Wearable Collections. Flyers advertising the new resource were also posted on the lobbys bulletin board, in the elevators and in the refuse room on each floor.
image courtesy of Wearable Collections |
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OROE to Expand Weekly Textiles Collection Sites in 2009 Since June 2007 OROE has worked to target the 6% of NYCs residential waste that consists of textiles such as clothing and household linens. With just two locations we have kept more than 240,000 pounds of material out of the landfill. With your support we will collect even more at our expanded sites and new collection days! |
CURRENT TEXTILES COLLECTIONS: (SW section of the park) Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket, Brooklyn Saturdays 8am-4pm (NW Entrance of Prospect Park) |
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ADDITIONAL WEEKLY COLLECTIONS (BEGINNING JANUARY 2009): Union Square Greenmarket - Saturdays (begins January 3) 8am-6pm (West side of the Park) Tompkins Square Greenmarket - Sundays (begins January 4) 8am-4pm (East 7th St. & Ave A) 97th Street Greenmarket - Fridays (begins January 9) 8am-2pm ( 97th St. & Columbus Ave) |
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SPECIAL ONE-DAY COLLECTION: Inwood Greenmarket - Saturday, January 10 only, 8am-2pm (Isham St. b/t Seaman & Cooper) |
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GrowNYC (GrowNYC) is a hands-on non-profit that has been improving New York Citys environment for over thirty years. GrowNYCs dedicated staff green our neighborhoods, create the environmental leaders of the future, reinvigorate New Yorkers understanding of, and participation in, NYCs recycling program, and run the largest farmers market program in the country. For more information or to make a tax-deductable donation: www.GrowNYC.org. |
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THE OFFICE OF RECYCLING OUTREACH & EDUCATION (OROE) works to improve the Citys recycling rate by educating residents about recycling and waste prevention, and working with landlords to make sure building recycling programs are adequate. Our free services include apartment building recycling audits, trainings for tenants and supers, community events centered on education and special collection programs for textiles, electronics, and compost. Our five borough-wide coordinators work on a community-by-community basis to identify and address the specific challenges to recycling within a Community District. OROEs current intensive efforts target one-quarter of New York Citys residents in the neighborhoods of Washington Heights, Inwood, East Harlem, Central Harlem and Manhattan Public Housing; Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick; Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Corona, Jamaica; South Bronx; and all of Staten Island. For more information visit www.GrowNYC.org or call 212-788-7964. |
December 2008
The report highlights GrowNYC’s work to provide New Yorkers with solutions and opportunities to live a more sustainable life and accelerate climate action.