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Where: Outside of the Coop except during inclement weather when collection will be held inside the Coop Times: 2nd Wednesday of the month 3:45-6pm 4th Saturday of the month 1:45-4pm (Please try to come at least 15 minutes before the end of the shift.) New expanded plastic collection for Coop members only!  Please be ready to show your membership card.  New items collected: Plastic bags/wrapping/packaging from most Coop items (both food and non food items.) Plastic roll bags distributed by the Coop. Thin plastic film wrapping from items such as cheese, meat, toilet paper, tea boxes etc.  NO foil backed packaging is accepted at the moment. The regular TerraCycle collection is still available to Coop and non-Coop members! Ongoing community collection items: Toothbrushes and toothpaste tubes, any brand and size. Baby food pouches and caps, any brand Energy bar wrappers (any brand but only energy bars) Brita and other similar water filters Plastic food storage zip loc bags, cl...

More Recycling Opportunities Starting Wednesday July 8th! The vote is in and members at the May GM unanimously voted to create workshifts to collect a variety of hard to recycle packaging in partnership with TerraCycle. We will start collections in July. The 2nd Wednesday of the month (JULY 8th) and 4th Saturday of the month (JULY 25th). Collections will be open to members and non-members. These will be our regular collection days to start: W ednesdays 4 to 6pm Saturdays 2 to 4 pm.    Please see below for details of what we are collecting. Looking forward to your participation. Questions or interested in changing your current workshift to a Terracycle workshift on Wednesday?  Please contact ecokvetch@yahoo.com . PSFC—TerraCycle Recycling Collections When: 2nd Wednesday of the month 4 to 6pm, 4th Saturday of the month 2 to 4pm Where: Outside in front of the Coop (weather permitting - otherwise, inside during inclement weather) What to bring: Toothpaste tubes, any bran...

Two chances this weekend to recycle your electronics! Sponsored by the Lower East Side Ecology Center, these events let you safely discard  unwanted electronics.   See a complete list of acceptable items .  Saturday, January 19, 2013  |  10:00am - 4:00pm   Flyer   Directions Tekserve, 119 West 23rd Street,  Manhattan  10011 Sunday, January 20, 2013   | 10:00am - 4:00pm   Flyer   Directions Prospect Park West and 3rd Street,   Brooklyn  11215 Can't make it to an event? You can also drop off your e-waste five days per week at the  E-waste Warehouse   in Gowanus Brooklyn.

Thanks to Earth911 for this history of recycling infographic. Read the accompanying article to find out more fascinating details.

When: December 08, 2012 | 10:00am - 4:00pm This event will be held rain or shine . Where: P.S. 321 located at 180 7th Ave. between 1st & 2nd Streets, Brooklyn, NY 11215 See a list of acceptable materials for recycling. Electronics are accepted from households, not-for-profit organizations, and small businesses (less than 50 employees, please call ahead). We do not accept home appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, or air conditioners.

If you're looking to do some hurrican repairs or more general building/remodeling, consider Build It Green as a source of materials. Build It Green! NYC, is New York City's only non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials. Their warehouse has everything from panel doors to high end refrigerators and shutters to movie props. Their mission is to keep these materials out of the landfill, while offering deep discounts on their resale. The have over 75 tons of materials on sale at half or below their new prices such as doors, flooring, sinks, bathtubs and toilets, lighting, windows, trim, moulding,cabinets, furniture and much, much more... Gowanus Center Temporarily CLOSED due to storm damage You can volunteer at BIG!NYC-Gowanus for Hurricane Sandy Clean-Up, This Thursday & Saturday from 10am to 5pm! 69 9th St. Brooklyn, NY 718-725-8925 gowanus@bignyc.org Astoria Center OPEN 3-17 26th Ave. Queens, NY 718-777-0132 astoria@bignyc.org Open Every Day: ...

My apartment didn't really seem expensive.  (I live in Sunset Park.  Rents are quite a bit more reasonable than Park Slope).  Utilities didn't amount to all that much.  BUT, after realizing that I wasn't using water then RE-using water, I decided to catch most of the greywater I make and see what happened.  The results have been astonishing.  And pretty darned easy!  And I've saved money and I've saved fresh water. What is greywater?  All the water which I use then let go down the drain.  That's grey water.   I suppose it's called grey because it's not drinkable after using it - so it's not necessarily clear.  That is, dishwater, for one.  That's a big one.  Then there's the water I can catch easily when I'm washing my hands, taking a shower, etc.  That's the idea. Here are the kitchen/bathroom buckets ready to be filled from the standard dishpan in the kitchen sink.  And in the bathroom, the full bucket is...

People have been asking about upcoming electronics recycling events in the area. We have a list of upcoming events in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. Visit the Lower East Side Ecology Center website for additional locations in the 5 boroughs as well as a list of electronics that are accepted for recycling. These events are held rain or shine. Saturday, October 6 | 10:00am - 4:00pm Smith Street between President Street and Union Street, Brooklyn Sunday October 07 | 10:00am - 4:00pm 8th Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, Brooklyn Saturday, October 13 | 10:00am - 4:00pm 119 W 23rd Street between 6th & 7th Avenues, Chelsea, Manhattan Saturday, October 20 | 10:00am - 4:00pm Cortelyou Road (between Rugby and Marlborough Roads), Brooklyn Sunday October 21 | 10:00am - 4:00pm PS 29, Baltic Street between Henry Street and Clinton Street, Brooklyn

Date : Saturday, September 20 Time : 10am-4pm, rain or shine Location : Brooklyn Ave. between St. Marks Ave. & Prospect Place in Bedford Stuyvesant—See map Directions : Take the C train to Kingston-Throops Ave., walk 6 blocks south and 1 avenue east or take the B43 bus to Brooklyn Ave.and St. Marks Ave. According to the EPA, electronic waste contributes 70% of the toxins (such as lead, mercury, cadmium, phosphros and flame-retardants) found in lnadfills.  Recycling your ele ctronics waste decreases energy and water use, reduces pollution and keeps haqardous chemicals out of our air and water. Acceptable items include: Computers (laptops & desktops, servers, mainframes) Monitors Printers, scanners, fax-machines, copiers Network devices (routers, hubs, modems, etc.) Peripherals (keyboards, mice, cables, cords, chargers, etc.) Tablets and E-readers Components (hard drives, CD-ROMs, circuit boards, power supplies, etc.) TVs, VCRs, DVRs, & DVD Players Digital Conv...

Question : Which of the following items are recycleable? hair blue jeans wine cotton swabs crayons keys Answer : All of them! Keys are made of valuable metal. Keys For Kindness is a small, family-run program designed to raise money through metal key recycling for the Multiple Sclerosis society. Wine really is a zero-waste beverage. Its bottle can by recycled in a glass program, and ReCORK America has drop-off locations for corks at local Whole Foods stores. Jeans to your local Goodwill, but if they are too worn to be reused they can be recycled into other products. Companies like Green Jeans Insulation and Bonded Logic manufacture insulation products from recycled denim and cotton fibers. The Grand Army Plaza and other local greenmarkets accept fabric donations as well. &#9658 Read more about these less-known recycleables at Earth911 .

A a group of elementary school children in California are campaigning to get Crayola to take back used markers and recycle the components. Inspired by their teacher, the fifth graders set up an online petition called Crayola: Make Your Mark . So far they have gathered over 60,000 signatures. The petition states: "Every year, Crayola makes about half a billion markers — enough markers to wrap around the earth more than three times! — and sells them all around the world. Millions of kids use and love Crayola products — including the students at Sun Valley School, where I volunteer. That's why we're asking Crayola to make sure these markers don't end up in our landfills, incinerators and oceans." Sometimes the environmental problems we face seem overwhelmming and solutions unobtainable. Yet tackling the issues one bit at a time, as these students are doing, can make a real difference.

GrowNYC is opening new food scrap and textile drop-off sites this spring! Celebrate spring cleaning by starting food scrap collection in your kitchen and culling unwanted clothing or linens— ripped or torn is fine—from your closets. If you have questions about what you can bring, see GrowNYCs FAQs . The Grand Army Plaza Greenmarket will be accepting textiles on Saturdays from 8am to 4pm and food scraps on Saturdays from 8am to 3:30pm. The Carroll Gardens Greenmarket will be accepting textiles on Sundays from 8am-2:30pm and food scraps on Sundays from 8am-1pm. Check the GrowNYC website for a complete list of collection days and times at various Greenmarkets in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

While most Americans dispose of about a half ton of garbage per year, the Johnson family in California has only a handful of waste every six months. Seems incredible, doesn't it? The Earth911 article about this remarkable family, stresses several basic factors in their ability to reduce waste: 1. Buying in bulk (i.e. no individually wrapped items) 2. Using reusable bags and containers at all times 3. Buying only what you really need 4. Avoiding any purchases containing or wrapped in plastic 5. Getting off catalogue and junk mail lists Bea Johnson, the mom of the family, says that shopping is like voting. She chooses environmentally sound products and does not "vote" for ones that are disposable or overly packaged. While she does write to manufacturers to request that they alter the packaging or other aspects of their products, Bea says that living a zero waste lfestyle is neither time consuming nor expensive. Bea Johnson is using a mesh produce bag for her...

In honor of Earth Day, several of our vendors have agreed to give discounts to Park Slope Food Coop members who would like to buy reusable bags, some not currently carried by the Coop. Ecobags will give coop members a 15% off all produce bag orders from 4/21/12 - 5/30/12. The code is for this discount is 2012PSED and must be used on a minimum order of $25.00 not including shipping. ( You can get together with friends to order if you want to order a smaller amount ). Chicobags is offering a 25% discount—one time per person—with the code ParkSlope25 . This offer expires May 30, 2012. You must order directly through these companies' websites—not the Food Coop.

Q. Member Jessica writes: Is there a way to recycle egg cartons? I put mine in with the mixed paper recycling, but it seems like we could ship empty cartons back to the farmers . A. Cardboard egg cartons can certainly be recycled with mixed paper in the NYC's curbside recycling. Also, there are some farmers at the greenmarket who accept egg carton returns, either cardboard or the ones made of polystyrene. See for a list of NYC farmers market locations , including seasonal schedules. The smaller-scale farmers are generally more able to accommodate a hodge-podge of colors and styles in egg carton reuse, and simply pop their own label on top of the old one.

The Lower East Side Ecology Center just opened a new permanent e-waste drop-off & reuse center in Brooklyn . It's at 469 President Street (near Nevins Street) just a half mile from the Park Slope Food Coop. No more waiting months and months for collection day to ditch that cathode computer monitor! Even better than the one-day events, the warehouse offers both recycling and reuse—you can stop by the warehouse to peruse their selection of affordable electronic equipment and parts. Stop by the Community Reception to celebrate the opening February 04, 2012 | 12:00pm - 4:00pm Light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome. For regular hours (beginning January 31) and a list of accepted materials, click here . Find directions to the warehouse.

The Lower East Side Ecology Center is bringing its 9th Annual After the Holidays E-waste Event series to all five boroughs this January to help you responsibly recycle of all of your unwanted or broken gadgets. Please spread the word about responsible disposal of electronics to your family, friends and neighbors. In Park Slope: January 15, 2012 | 10:00am - 4:00pm Prospect Park West and 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 - Post this flyer in your lobby or workplace. - See a list of what can be accepted for recycling . See a complete list of all January E-waste recycling events in all five boroughs.

Saturday, December 10, 2011 10:00am - 4:00pm rain or shine in Park Slope at P.S. 321 (7th Ave. bet. 1st & 2nd) A list of acceptable materials can be found here . Accepted items include electronics from households, small businesses (less than 50 employees, please call ahead) and not-for-profits. Appliances such as microwaves, refrigerators, or air conditioners are not accepted.

The October 21 New York Times featured an article titled, Lunch, Landfills, and What I Tossed . Author Mireya Navarro counted up the waste she produced in a week's worth of take out lunches: "Saving all the packaging from a week’s worth of takeout food, I ended up with three plastic yogurt containers, a paper salad box, a paper cereal bowl, two Styrofoam plates, one plastic salad-dressing container and seven plastic food containers — the rigid ones with snap-on lids. Also, five plastic cups (each with a plastic straw), a paper cup with a plastic lid, a plastic water bottle and a plain old paper cup (it held milk for my cereal). Also, one plastic fork, one plastic knife and two compostable plastic spoons, which I threw out rather than composting." Besides the individual trying to brown bag it and otherwise cut down on waste, there is another problem--New York City is lagging behind many others in its recycling: "A survey by the Natural Resources Defense Council this...