Mulchfest @ Cobble Hill Park - Jan. 12th & 13th

Though trees are going up in homes citywide now, please remember to responsibly dispose of them when the holiday season is over. NYC Parks Dept. will be doing a tree recycling as part of Mulchfest 2013.

Saturday January 5th, 2013
10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. @ Cobble Hill Park (and various other locations across the city the following weekend January 12th & 13th)

Join the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation , and GreeNYC  to recycle your Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. Or, take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree . More than 24,000 trees were recycled last year. Help us top this number!

Please remember to remove all lights and ornaments before bringing the tree to a MulchFest site. Biodegradable bags will be provided if you wish to take some free mulch home.

Want to volunteer at MulchFest ? Register to join the GreenTeam and MillionTreesNYC volunteer group.

Plastics Recycling: Take the Survey!

This survey and tidbit of info just came in from CB 6

     

In the last fiscal year the Department of Sanitation reports that CB6 led the borough with a recycling diversion rate of 25.1%. That means for every 4 pounds of waste our households generate, 1 pound of it is sorted and diverted into the recyclables waste stream, preventing the high costs of backhauling our waste to out-of-state landfills and giving manufacturers the opportunity to reuse our recyclables as feedstock.

The Department of Sanitation is working indirectly with a team of students from NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service to better understanding plastics recycling in New York City.  The students have asked us to help spread the word to encourage New Yorkers to take a brief, online survey which they estimate will only take about 10 minutes to complete.

Click here to begin the survey, and thank you for participating.