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Recycling
June 10, 2021 2021 June Compost Giveback
The GrowNYC Compost Program is typically focused on collecting your food scraps, but from June 12 to June 27, we’re also giving away free compost made from the food scraps we’ve collected in the last year! This is our annual act of reciprocity: we're closing the loop...
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January 02, 2019 Host Your Own Community Swap!
Hosting a Swap is as Easy as D-I-Y with GrowNYC’s Guide to Community Reuse EventsWe are pleased to announce the release of our new DIY Swap Guide!Since 2007, GrowNYC has hosted 270 Stop ‘N’ Swap® community reuse events across all five boroughs. Our goal is to provide...
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December 15, 2017 Fighting Food and Clothing Waste – 15 Million Pounds and Counting!
(click photo to view slideshow) As the curtain closes on 2017, we mark TWO milestones for GrowNYC’s zero waste programs. We are thrilled to announce; thanks to YOU we have collected more than 10 million pounds of food scraps at our Greenmarkets!There’s more! YOU...
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February 12, 2016 Environmental Ambassadors at NYCHA
Over the past year, an exciting thing has been happening: recycling is rolling out at NYCHA developments citywide. As a partner in community engagement, GrowNYC has provided recycling education at workshops and events, aiming to change the way more than 400,000 New...
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June 17, 2015 “¡Recicla, Boricua!” Float Cleans Up Puerto Rican Day Parade
GrowNYC and the Sierra Club of Puerto Rico "floated up" Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at the festive National Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, June 16. The green team volunteers hauled clear bags stuffed with recyclable materials collected from the audience onto the...
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January 08, 2015 Clothing Recycling Gets Legs in Chinatown Co-op
The weekend before Thanksgiving, residents in one Chinatown complex took time to “unstuff”—closets and drawers, that is—bringing 2,500 pounds of unwanted clothing to a special collection in their building. In 2012 GrowNYC hosted an Earth Day textile collection as...
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