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The increasing costs of exporting our residential waste, combined with the severe budget crisis New York City is now facing, call for an immediate increase in waste prevention -- the environmentally preferable choice with the biggest bang for your buck. The city may not be able to control the costs of exporting its waste, but with good waste prevention initiatives in place, it can control the amount it exports.

This site offers a portal to information and resources relating to waste prevention in New York City, including the latest news and activities of the New York City Waste Prevention Community Coordinators Program and Waste-Free NYC.

Please visit often, as information will be added on an ongoing basis.

Waste-Free NYC: Citywide Activities

Special Fundraising Activity: Reducing New York City's waste stream can be profitable! Recycling For Charity will pay one dollar for every phone you collect, two dollars for Palm pilots and BlackBerrys, and fifty cents for pagers -- nonworking, obsolete, or simply out of style. Recycling For Charity will also pay the postage and handling. You can create drop-off sites in your office, in your home, at local stores, or at monthly meetings. Recycling For Charity has sample posters and fliers to help you get the word out about your collection program and bins that you can use for large collection sites. Visit Recycling For Charity to learn how to take advantage of this fantastic fundraising program.

Just say NO to menus, circulars, and bundles of advertisements! The average four-family apartment building gets over two pounds of unrequested circulars, menus, and handbills dumped on its front stoop every week. With over 100,000 such apartment buildings in New York City1, that adds up to 200,000 pounds -- or 100 tons -- of paper per week, some of which may be thrown in the recycling bin, but most of which probably winds up in the trash. This is a waste of natural resources and taxpayers' money. Download this colorful PDF sign and post it in the front door of your apartment building to request (in English, Chinese, and Spanish) that advertisements, menus, and circulars not be left of the doorstep. The 7" x 9" size fits in most doors and windows, and the sign looks fine in black and white, too.

Press Release: INFORM Awards Contracts for Waste Prevention

Click on a link below:

1. Waste Composition in NYC
2. Related Links - Waste Prevention Research and Education Resources
3. Related Links - Waste Prevention Resources by Material

Notes

1 1999 Housing and Vacancy Survey; US Census Bureau