residential-recycling

The Residential Reuse and Recycling Committee aims to develop tools and conduct outreach to promote practices that will increase resident participation in reduce, reuse, and recycling programs.

Our Goals

Ensure that curbside collection of waste follows optimal recycling and reuse behaviors among all stakeholders. Ensure that each stakeholder assumes their responsibility in taking on these behaviors:

1.

Producers assume responsibility for the material used in their packaging.

2.

Consumers assume responsibility for reusing products to the fullest extent possible and correctly sort materials into the waste stream.

3.

Property owners and managers, coop and condo boards and resident managers assume responsibility for recycling and reuse by staff and residents.

4.

Building staff correctly bag the recycled materials.

What we do

  • Enact a city-wide mandatory recycling lease rider and annual tenant letter

  • Explore transparent trash bags city-wide with post-consumer resin content to easily identify material

  • Expand distribution of existing Residential Recycling guide

  • Generate and distribute a Reuse Guide for multifamily building.

  • Support NYPSC EPR packaging and paper products (PPP) efforts

  • Generate EPR PPP talking points

  • Educate MSWAB on PPP EPR and product recovery vs. recyclability

  • Diagram regional recycling infrastructure

  • Generate and distribute a NYC principals of packaging design guide

  • Assess effectiveness of Local Law 69 of 2013, an EPR for refrigerants

NYC Recycling guidelines

NYC’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) provides free curbside recycling collection for NYC residents and schools. All NYC residents and businesses are required to recycle.

Businesses must arrange to have their recycling collected by a licensed private carter.

Learn more about DSNY’s Recycling Guidelines.

Recycling plastic is expensive, time-consuming, and can leach toxins. Learn about the impact of plastic waste in nyc.

JOIN THE Residential-RECYCLING COMMITTEE

The Manhattan SWAB Residential-Recycling Committee consists of residential leaders, zero waste professionals and community advocates. The committee meets monthly on the second Tuesday from 11:00-12:00 pm ET.

Contact us to join or learn more.

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