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2009 Golden Apple Awards for Schools in NYC
Show us your school recycling program!
Demonstrate how your school reduces waste!
Brag about your school’s beautification projects!
Enter your efforts in one (or all three) of the contests associated with the 2009 Golden Apple Awards:
TrashMasters! Super Recyclers
TrashMasters! Reduce & Reuse Challenge
TrashMasters! […]
Tag Archive 'Waste'
Recycling in Apartments
Posted in Waste on Mar 18th, 2009
Improve recycling in your apartment building by signing up with NYC’s Apartment Building Recycling Initiative:
Do you live in, or manage, an apartment building?
Would you like to see recycling improved in your building?
Do you want to help tenants and staff learn more about waste prevention, reuse, and recycling?
Are you interested in making NYC cleaner and greener?
Participate in the […]
What’s Happening to NYC’s Garbage?
Posted in Waste on Mar 16th, 2009
Not sure how I missed this, but Steve Cohen has a great piece about how New York City is actually producing less trash than it was just years ago. We’re “down” to 51,250 tons per week, from 54,205 tons/wk in 2005. This while the city’s population grows. Long way to go, but it’s a start.
Posted in Efficiently on Mar 9th, 2009
The Queen Green Bee is dropping some logic about a Bigger Better Bottle Bill.
Electronics Recycling Dates for January
Posted in Waste on Dec 30th, 2008
Electronics Recycling
by the Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC)
See FAQ page to learn more about what to bring… http://www.lesecologycenter.org/les_frames.html
Saturday, January 3, from 10 am - 4 pm
Pelham Bay Park South - Middletown Road Parking lot off Stadium Avenue, Bronx
LESC would like to thank Friends of Pelham Park and Parks for sponsoring this event
Sunday, January 4, […]
Plastic Bag Bill Passes
Posted in Waste on Dec 16th, 2008
Paterson signs the plastic bag bill into law statewide.
Efficiently: Link drop
Posted in Miscellany on Jul 12th, 2008
Too much piling up on the backlog. Time to digest it all. Highlights from an undercovered couple of days.
Hundreds (or even thousands!) of bikes to be a part of broad new bike share program.
Brooklyn Heights named America’s most fuel efficient neighborhood. (Though we really can’t figure out how they came up with those numbers.)
Another long […]
Garbagetown-New Waste Transfer Station Approved for Meatpacking District
Posted in Waste on Jun 27th, 2008
Lots of discussion and debate about the Mayor’s now-approved plan to open a new waste transfer station in Manhattan. While nobody is really thrilled about having the station break up Hudson River Park, the Mayor and environmental advocates point to the efficiency and air quality improvements of moving all the recyclables by barge direct from […]
From CENYC:
Did you know that 5.7% of NYC’s residential waste is textiles yet they are 100% Recyclable! Recycle your unwanted textile materials at the Union Square Greenmarket every Monday 8AM - 6PM through December 2008!
Textiles are collected EVERY Monday from 8 A.M to 6 P.M. on Union Square West near 15th Street. Acceptable donations […]
Stores’ Open Doors Dump Cold Air at $140/Barrel
Posted in Energy on Jun 22nd, 2008
Great piece by Ashwin Seshagiri in Triple Pundit about the waste of air conditioned stores leaving their doors open.
As we mark the official start of summer this weekend, like in years past, many storefronts from Rodeo Drive to Fifth Avenue to London’s West End will open up their doors, offering cool, air-conditioned oases from […]