Put what you’ve learned during this month’s Plastic Free July Campaign to the test at Madison Square Park’s Plastic Free Picnic! Challenge your family, friends, or office staff to pack a plastic-free picnic lunch to enjoy in the park!

• Bring excess markers, pencils, fabric, and other materials

• "Shop” materials from other teachers to take back to the classroom 

• Any excess supplies at the end of the Drop and Swap will go to Materials for the Arts’ warehouse to be distributed to schools and nonprofit organizations

The MSWAB - Organics Committee reached out to LinkNYC to creat an advert to promote Composting Not Rats! During the month of March, the 20 kiosks can be found in the following Community Boards:

Please Join MSWAB For A Waste Initiative Field Trip on Tuesday December 20th Learn about the collaborations that make these projects possible. Connect with fellow waste minded New Yorkers. Share, Feedback, Ideas, Resources and more!

Senator Brian Kavanagh, District 2 includes the Brooklyn Waterfront, Battery Park City, Chinatown, the East Village, the Financial District, Little Italy, the Lower East Side, SOHO, the South Village,

In an effort to raise awareness of the New York City’s Zero Waste goals and the important programing that both the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board (Manhattan SWAB) and iDig2Learn engage in, the organizations will be holding a joint end-of-year fundraiser at the historic Good Shepherd Chapel located at 543 Main Street.

Join the Brooklyn and Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Boards for a discussion of the impacts of plastics in packaging on humans health by Cafeteria Culture's public and environmental health advisor, Jenny Davies, MD MPH JD.

Created in 1989 under Local Law 19, the MSWAB advances ideas, insights, and initiatives to achieve NYC’s Zero Waste x 2030 goal.

In an effort to reduce the enormous volume of reusable household items and furnishings thrown in the garbage and sent to landfills, the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board (MSWAB) has published a database covering hundreds of organizations where no-longer-wanted items can be donated, shared, sold or swapped in New York City. #sharecyclenyc

MSWAB held a special compost grant and funded three proposals for $1000 each to build a compost system that is open to the community to help alleviate the lack of compost sites.