Party to Support Recycling!
Tuesday, May 11, 6pm-9pm
Water Taxi Beach South Street Seaport
Dance to live music featuring the West Side All Stars and enjoy complementary 'wichcraft sandwiches, Fizzy Lizzy sodas, desert from Not Just Rugelah, beer, wine and cocktails. Play volleyball, ping pong and mini golf on a beach in Downtown Manhattan. Look forward to 18,000 square feet of fun, food, sun, recreation and relaxation. Click here to buy your tickets!

Your Recycling Questions, Answered
“The Local” for Ft. Greene/Clinton Hill, an online collaboration between The New York Times and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, recently took recycling questions for OROE’s Recycling Outreach Coordinator for Brooklyn, Jae Watkins. Even if you don’t live in the community you’ll find many of Jae’s answers enlightening.

Recycling Expansion Proposed for NYC
The New York City Council recently proposed 11 pieces of legislation to expand recyclable materials and recycling programs, increase enforcement and outreach and conduct additional studies. At this time, no laws have been passed or changes implemented. Stay tuned to OROE’s e-newsletter for information on any updates to NYC’s recycling program.

Whole Foods Adds Cork Recycling Program
If you are among those who can’t bear to trash natural cork stoppers from wine bottles, you may be interested to know about this recycling opportunity. Wine stoppers made of cork (no synthetic plastic stoppers or metal caps) can be dropped off at any Whole Foods market in NYC to be recycled into a variety of products by Jelinek Cork Group. These stores will also take #5 plastic containers and Brita pitcher filters for recycling through Preserve’s Gimme 5 program.

FAST TRASH:
Roosevelt Island’s Pneumatic Tubes and the Future of Cities

Exhibition
April 22-May 23
RIVAA Gallery, 527 Main Street on Roosevelt Island

Symposium
"Comparative Garbage Collection Strategy and Urban Planning"
Thursday, May 6, 6pm- 9pm, Reception to follow
NYU Wagner School of Public Service, 295 Lafayette Street
On Roosevelt Island—located in the East River between Manhattan and Queens—there are no garbage bags on the sidewalks and no garbage trucks. Instead, refuse is collected from its 14,000 inhabitants via a retro-futuristic system of underground tubes. An exhibition on the island features maps, photographs, videos and more. On May 6, a symposium will explore the role of garbage collection in a dense urban environment.

Please click here for more info and to RSVP for the Fast Trash Symposium.

Electronics Recycling Events

Upper West Side (two events)
110th Street and Amsterdam Ave
Sunday, May 16 & Sunday, May 23, 12pm-5pm
Accepting computers (working and non-working laptops, desktops, servers, monitors, printers, keyboards, mice, cables) and cell phones only. No TV sets, stereo equipment or appliances (microwave ovens, toasters etc.). Sponsored by Upper West Side Recycling Center in collaboration with the Columbus-Amsterdam Bid. Call 212-666-9774 for more info.

Flatbush, Brooklyn (e-waste + textiles)
Sephardic Community Center, 1901 Ocean Parkway on the corner of Ave. S
Sunday, May 16, 10am-3pm
Recycle electronics, textiles and athletic shoes at Recycling Day. Materials accepted include electronic waste such as computers, monitors, printers, televisions, cell phones and fax machines; unwanted textiles such as clothing, linens, hats, belts, boots, shoes and handbags for reuse and recycling; and old athletic shoes for recycling into tracks and playground surfaces (no metal cleats, flip flops, boots or dress shoes). For more information call 718-954-3154.

Green from the Inside Out
Thursday, May 20, 6pm-8:30pm
City College of New York, North Academic Center (Ballroom), Cocnvent Ave & 138th St
For the past year GrowNYC has traversed Manhattan alongside Solar1 to bring you Green from the Inside Out, a workshop series for property owners, managers and residents that provides knowledge and resources to make their homes more environmentally friendly. Don’t miss the last installment of this series! You’ll learn to save energy (and money), reduce waste, and recycle correctly. You can also find out about financial incentives for greening projects and whether solar power and green roofs are right for you. Vendors of green products and services will be present to help you get started. Please RSVP to Celia Salgado at 212-505-6050 or celia@solar1.org.

Co-op and Apartment Building Composting Programs
Wednesday, May 26, 6pm-8pm
Thomson Reuters Building, 3 Times Square (corner of W42nd St & 7th Ave), 22nd floor
This workshop is for experienced home composters who are interested in expanding their individual composting efforts to a cooperative composting project with other residents in their buildings. Learn how to plan out a co-op size compost program, present the project to your board and cooperate with your neighbors for odor and pest-free composting. There will be testimonials and photo examples from current composting co-ops. Registration is required. Workshop fee $5 per person, cash only. Hosted by the Lower East Side Ecology Center.

GrowNYC's OFFICE OF RECYCLING OUTREACH & EDUCATION (OROE) works to improve the City's 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. OROE's current intensive efforts target one-quarter of New York City's residents. 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. For more information visit www.grownyc.org or call 212-788-7964.