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New York City's eight-plus million residents just got 33 new public places where they can recycle their rubbish, Mayor Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn announced at a press conference yesterday in City Hall Park. The new locations are an expansion of a pilot public recycling program that started in March 2007, when 126 blue and green recycling cans were placed in high traffic areas at 10 sites, finally giving New Yorkers' the chance to do in public what they're required by law to do at home.
Starting yesterday, an additional 105 blue and green bins can be found throughout all five boroughs. The mayor's office stressed that the expansion comes at minimal cost to taxpayers through the use of existing Department of Sanitation collection resources and partnerships with 18 Business Improvement Districts. Bloomberg said yesterday that "the key to maintaining the City's high quality of life—even during tough times—is learning to do more with less. Because of careful planning by the Sanitation Department, this expansion of public recycling will have virtually no impact on the City's budget."
Sanitation Commissioner John J. Doherty told reporters that "last year, the DSNY collected 1.7 million tons of recyclables—about 16 percent of our residential waste." Now the big question is whether New Yorkers can resist the urge to toss their non-recyclable rubbish into these green and blue receptacles. And the new public space recycling locations are...
Brooklyn
* McCarren Park
* Prospect Park (9th Street & Prospect Park and the corner of Ocean & Parkside Avenues)
* Intersection of 5th Avenue & Bay Ridge Parkway
* Intersection of Church & Flatbush Avenues
* Intersection of Adams, Fulton, & Willoughby Streets
* Intersection of Hasting Street & Oriental Boulevard
* Intersection of Avenue S & East 32nd Street
* Intersection of 44th Street & 7th Avenue
Queens
* Astoria Park
* Flushing Meadows Park (Paserelle Circle)
* Intersection of 34th Street & Broadway
Staten Island
* Wolf’s Pond Park
* Intersection of Forest & Bement Avenues
* New Dorp Lane Staten Island Railway station
Bronx
* New York Botanical Garden
* Bronx Zoo
* Intersection of Kingsbridge & Fordham Roads
* Intersection of 3rd Avenue & East 149th Street
* Intersection of Broadway & Manhattan College Parkway
Manhattan
* Outside Whitehall Ferry Terminal
* City Hall Park
* Bryant Park
* Foley Square Park
* Thomas Paine Park
* Intersection of 39th Street & 7th Avenue
* Intersection of East 42nd Street & Lexington Avenue
* Intersection of Essex & Delancey Streets
* Intersection of West 125th Street & Lenox Avenue
* Intersection of West 34th Street & 7th Avenue
* Intersection of West 42nd Street & 7th Avenue
* Intersection of Spring & Wooster Streets
* Intersection of Greenwich & N. Moore Streets
* Intersection of West 72nd Street & Broadway
The existing public space recycling locations are:
Brooklyn
* Front Street in Brooklyn Heights
* 1344 Pennsylvania Avenue
Queens
* Hoffman Park
* Intersection of Main & 38th Streets
Staten Island
* Clove Lakes Park
* Staten Island Borough Hall
* Saint George Ferry Terminal
Manhattan
* Battery Park City
* Union Square Park
* Inside Whitehall Ferry Terminal
And for more information about recycling, visit NYC Wasteless ("Everything you wanted to know about how and what to recycle can be found here").
Photo courtesy Spencer T Tucker.
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I want to know what happened to the recycling bins outside Brooklyn's Borough Hall.
please, what about recycling our term limits voted Twice instead of killing democracy. Also Einsteins, why are the bins for the paper keep in the open so when it rains all the paper must be wet and cant be recycle?
I knew it, you can't recycle wet paper so why do these idiots put the paper bin outside when the bins should be put on the subway platform. God I hate the city council, stupid and corrupt
What about requiring offices to recycle? My office JUST got paper recycling bins about a month ago. We throw away so many plastic lunch containers and water bottles that could be recycled. It's ridiculous! Office buildings probably produce 60% of the waste in this city... the city council should extend recycling laws to them as well.
totally true ab! publishers throw away tons of paper in used proofs, and correspondence. ive been trying to get my office to get recycle bins for a year. does anyone listen? no.
I ask the building manager of our office and he states the private company that hauls the office garbage recycles them. I am not sure if it is true.
When are we going to be able to recycle yogurt containers and deli containers and other kinds of plastic which the city currently doesn't recycle?
I hate photo ops... "Oh, I better touch the recycling bin in this shot"
So what if the newspapers get wet and can't be recycled; the city council can feel good about themselves and brag about how they're saving the planet at the next cocktail party.
@idlesofmarch, oh yeah, This council is corrupt and fake, sorry that I lost the real focus of this photo op. Like you stated it is always about them. Thanks for bringing me back to NYC political reality.
omg, I think they put "TERM LIMITS are for SUCKERS" on the bins.
Am I the only person that didn't know that wet paper can't get recycled? Is there a link someone could provide that proves/disproves this?
Nick S: clicky
I have stayed late at several office buildings and seen the recycling trash bins dumped in the exact same place as the regular trash.
So in this metaphor Term Limits are the empty can of Pepsi, right?
Thanks, Zodak - I didn't know that bottle caps don't get recycled.
another example of how behind NYC is in so many ways (just like our transit system). coming from Canada, we've had public recycling bins in every city, from the smallest town to Toronto/Vancouver for at least a decade. the fact that the city is patting themselves on the back about this is ridiculous. they should be ashamed that it took so long to figure this out. Toronto even offers a green-bin program that allows every household to compost their organic waste. it's about time NYC caught up!
Now the big question is whether New Yorkers can resist the urge to toss their non-recyclable rubbish into these green and blue receptacles.
No, the big question is whether an awful lot of New Yorkers can resist the urge to toss their garbage on the ground. I've seen cretins buy a pack of cigarettes or a chocolate bar and leave a trail of cellophane or candy wrapper shreds as they walk down the street.