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Sanitation Organics Collection Pilot Area Map, via nyc.gov
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In just over a month, you’ll be able to put your separated banana peels and coffee grounds curbside to be kept out of landfills and turned into compost instead. The expanded organics collection pilot program will begin picking up in parts of Park Slope beginning the week of May 19. According to the map, people
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Events E-Waste: Electronics Recycling on 5th Ave
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As you clear out those closets for a round of spring cleaning, be sure to put aside those old electronics that can be recycled. You can drop them off at a Lower East Side Ecology Center recycling day, which is coming up on Saturday, March 29 from 10am-4pm on 5th Avenue between Sterling Place and Douglass Street.
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Sanitation Map via Here Here
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311 complaints rarely seem very funny when we’re making them (or dealing with the frustration that comes when they’re not efficiently responded to), but there’s something about maps with pictures or sound that just makes stuff like garbage, rats, and potholes a little more entertaining. Now online to inform residents (and maybe make some light of) the most
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Green Compost Bin
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Don’t want to wait until spring for the organics waste recycling pilot program to start? Looking to start up a composting project at a local community garden, school, or on your block? Why not become a Master Composter! The NYC Compost Project Master Composter Certificate Course was developed by the NYC Compost Project and the DSNY Bureau of
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Events Electronic Waste Recyling
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Did you get some cool new gadgets over the holidays, and now you don’t know what to do with the old ones? Drop them off at the 11th annual After the Holidays E-Waste Collection Event this Sunday, January 19 from 10am to 4pm at Prospect Park, sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center, Tekserve, and Council Member Brad Lander.
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Sanitation Organics Recycling Bins
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Ready to sort your orange peels and coffee grinds along with your paper and plastic? According to Community Board 6, the Department of Sanitation’s pilot household organic waste collection will be expanding into parts of our area this spring. In areas where it’s been rolled out already, the program so far has allowed residents in single family
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Sanitation New Recycling Bins On 7th Avenue
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Have you seen the new public recycling bins that were installed recently along 7th Avenue? They’re some of the first newly redesigned public space recycling containers to be deployed in the city by the Department of Sanitation. DSNY has a goal of adding 10,000 new recycling containers to the streets of the five boroughs by the end
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Holiday MulchFest at Prospect Park
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Though Christmas was only a couple days ago, if you want to start planning what to do with that lovely tree, here are some options. Please note, you must remove all decorations from your tree before disposing of it at these events! MulchFest Gowanus When: Sunday, January 5, 11am-3pm Where: The Salt Lot, 2 2nd Avenue
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Green Textile recycling at Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket by Wearable Collections on FB
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Looking for a place to drop off clothing and other textiles that’s not a donation bin placed illegally on a sidewalk? As you make room in your closet for new winter duds, and in the future when you start thinking about spring cleaning, here’s a list of some local options: • Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket
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Green E-Waste: Electronics Recycling
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Another chance to recycle those old electronics you might have gathering dust in your apartment is coming up this Saturday, December 7 from 10am to 4pm, at an e-waste recycling event sponsored by the the Lower East Side Ecology and Tekserve, and hosted by PS 321. You can drop off both working and non-working electronics in front of the school on 7th Avenue
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Sanitation Abandoned bike on Union
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Thanks to the Department of Sanitation (we’re assuming) for finally getting rid of the abandoned bicycle that you flagged for removal a couple weeks ago on Union Street near 5th Avenue. But why only take one, and not the other that was also attached to the same rack? Seems like this relatively new system of relieving
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Sanitation Electronic Waste Recyling
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Have some old electronics rotting away in the apartment? Didn’t get to drop them off on 5th Ave this past Saturday? Bring them to Upcycle Fest, a two-day collection taking place on Sunday, October 27 and Monday, October 28. Electronics can be dropped off in different locations across Prospect Park, and items you can bring include
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