Free Services & Programs:

Residential Recycling Assistance
OROE will help establish or improve apartment building recycling programs, ensuring that they meet city requirements and facilitate proper recycling by tenants. We provide training for building staff and reinforce good recycling habits by conducting workshops for tenants and shareholders. Participants will receive a set of our Sort & Store recycling stations to help maintain recycling in their apartments.

Public Recycling Workshops and Informational Tables
Invite OROE to your next community meeting or event for an informative discussion or interactive display of the best recycling practices. We will also plug you in to local resources to help you recycle even more than what goes in your bins at home.

Event Recycling Assistance
OROEsEvent Recycling Coordinatorcan provide guidance on best practices to help you comply with NYC street event recycling rules and green your event beyond the minimum requirements.

Special Waste Collections
To help divert even more waste from landfills OROE hostsStop N Swap events and coordinates special textile recycling drives and apartment building textile collections. We also helped establishweekly textile collectionsat 19 Greenmarkets, host food scrap collections at 21 Greenmarkets and frequently partner with community groups and other organizations to facilitate electronics collections, compost workshops, CFL recycling and more.

Recycling Outreach Districts

We are currently focusing outreach in the following neighborhoods and welcome all residents, landlords, owners, building supers, community groups, tenants associations and others tocontact usif we can be of assistance.

Manhattan: Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, Lower East Side, Chinatown

Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Brownsville, Ocean Hill

Queens: Astoria, LIC, Jackson Heights, Corona, Jamaica, Broad Channel, Rockaways, Elmhurst, Corona

Bronx: Melrose, Mott Haven, Hunts Point, Longwood, Morrisania, Highbridge, Mount Eden, Concourse Village, Morris Heights, Mount Hope

Staten Island: Entire Island