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Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools

GrowNYC recently formed a partnership with Wagner Middle School in Manhattan called Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools, funded by NYC Council Member Jessica Lappin. Under one roof, we are providing support from five GrowNYC programs: Learn It Grow It Eat It, Grow to Learn NYC, Greenmarket Youth Education, Recycling Champions and Environmental Education.

For an entire year, GrowNYC staff will educate young people about leading lives that improve their personal health and that of the environment around them--so that eating, growing, learning, and going green becomes second nature.

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GrowNYC Food Scrap Collection Surpasses 1 Million Pounds

A partnership with the City of New York and NYC Department of Sanitation to collect food scraps for composting at Greenmarkets has proved fruitful. What started as a small pilot in 2011 has diverted more than one million pounds of coffee grounds, apple cores and more from disposal as of January 2013.

Shoppers can drop off food scraps at one of 25 participating Greenmarkets. Material is transported by GrowNYC, DSNY or a community partner to compost sites and urban agriculture projects within the five boroughs.

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2 Million Pounds of Shirts, Sheets and Shoes

The average New Yorker tosses 46 pounds of clothing and other textiles in the trash each year. Since 2007, GrowNYC has worked to provide weekly collections for clothing, linens and more at select Greenmarkets and at one-time special community events. Your donations have added up and kept more than two million pounds of material out of the landfill. Don’t trash those unwanted ties, towels and togas! 16 drop-off sites are open now, with more on the way.

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