Recycling Champions provides NYC schools with the tools needed to make recycling a part of every school day.  We do this by working with multiple schools in all five boroughs, the NYC Department of Education Sustainability Initiative, and Department of Sanitation, to develop best practices for school recycling.  Is your school a Recycling Champion?

The NYC DOE Sustainability Initiative's goal is to double the recycling rate at NYC public schools to 20% by 2013.  Recycling Champions is here to help schools exceed that goal.  The turnkey resources available on this site are a result of our hands-on involvement with faculty, administration, students, custodians, and parents.

Recycling Champions Highlights

• 27 participating schools, grades K-12, in all five NYC boroughs
• 16,000 students with access to a bolstered school recycling program
• 1,600 faculty and staff particpated in professional development
• In partnership with the NYC DOE Sustainability Initiative and Department of Sanitation:
  - Pratt Industries donates 40,000 paper recycling bins to 900 schools
  - Trained 757 NYC DOE Sustainability Coordinators 
  - Trained 1,200 NYC DOE Custodian Engineers
  
  Please contact, schoolrecycling@grownyc.org with any questions.

Seeing is Believing: Recycle More Paper!

Every year NYC residents throw away 400,000 tons of recyclable paper, that's enough to fill the Empire State Building.  Check out this short History Channel production about where most of NYC’s paper recycling goes: