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Recycling
September 30, 2014 Green Your Halloween!
With Halloween 2014 coming on the heels of the BoxTrolls movie, recycled (and recyclable) cardboard costumes are sure to be in high demand. Even if you won’t be creating one of these characters, we’ve got great tips for greening this season of ghosts and gourds. *...
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June 16, 2014 GrowNYC and Sierra Club Puerto Rico Team Up to “Recicla Boricua” at Puerto Rican Day Parade
Over 100 bags of recyclable materials were collected by volunteers. The highly celebrated National Puerto Rican Day Parade that descended upon Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue on Sunday, June 8 was red and white and green all over. A plan to educate participants about waste...
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June 05, 2014 Recycling at Greenmarkets as Bountiful as the Produce
GrowNYC Greenmarkets are opening for the season throughout the city, bringing with them not only a bounty of fresh regional products, but also expanding weekly opportunities for New Yorkers to recycle textiles and compost food scraps. In 2007, GrowNYC’s newly-created Office of Recycling Outreach and Education...
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May 14, 2014 GrowNYC Receives “Vivacious Volunteer” Award from Baruch College
Last night, GrowNYC’s Stop ‘N’ Swap® coordinators, TK Zellers and Carl-Harry Nau, received recognition for their work with the Sigma Alpha Delta Honor Society at Baruch College Society's Induction Ceremony. Affectionately known as our “swapateers,” TK and Carl have...
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May 08, 2014 Green Living Team Unites Residents and Staff to Revive Recycling
Food has always been common ground that brings people together. Now, some New Yorkers are uniting over the scraps. This year the West Side Federation of Senior Supportive Housing (WSFSSH) hosted a Living Green Team Awards Ceremony, to celebrate and recognize...
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