Tag: Recycling
via Bensonhurst Bean
New Life for Old Clothes
The Sanitation Department is mulling extending its curbside textile collection pilot program.
via The New York Times
Public Housing Greening Stalls
The city Housing Authority hasn't followed through on promises to help its complexes "go green," some residents say.
via Queens West Villager
Salvaging the Art of Recycling
Materials for the Arts – the city's largest non-profit municipal reuse program – offers artists thousands of items that otherwise would have been headed for the trash.
Finding Redemption, Nickel by Nickel
Sure We Can bills itself as the city’s only licensed, homeless-friendly can-and-bottle redemption center.
Putting ‘Cycling’ in Recycling
Thomas Porter of Porter Cycles pieces together old bicycle parts into custom-made new two-wheelers in his Bushwick shop.
Recyled Records Are Back in Fashion
Long thought of as a relic, vinyl is making a comeback on turntables – and as fashion accessories.