Virtual Load Out Street Sheet! This Fall FABnyc is helping you reuse and recycle your resources (virtually)! Below is a list of organizations around the city that can help you recycle, reuse and repurpose.
Materials for the Arts (MFTA): New York’s premiere reuse center, providing a way for companies and individuals to donate unneeded supplies to thousands of nonprofit organizations with arts programming and public schools.
Accepts donations from companies and individuals and redistributes them to nonprofit organizations with arts programming and public schools, for free! Events, exhibitions, artist talks, and workshops Classes and hands on workshops for educators focused on creative reuse
33-00 Northern Boulevard, 3rd Floor Long Island City, NY 11101 718-729-3001 Donations: donations@mfta.nyc.gov 718-729-2065 Lower East Side Ecology Center: Focused on working towards a more sustainable New York City by providing community-based recycling and composting programs that encourage all New Yorkers to learn about environmental issues facing NYC and to
take responsibility for solving those problems.
Free public compost collection Electronic waste recycling (warehouse in Gowanus, Brooklyn) Stewardship of public open space Environmental education
East River Park Environmental Learning Center (in the East River Park Fire Boat House) East River Park promenade at Grand St. P.O. Box 20488 New York, NY 10009 (212) 477-4022 info@lesecologycenter.org Additional locations across the City GROWnyc: Provides a variety of environmental education programs to increase participation in New York City’s curbside recycling program using a grassroots, community-bycommunity strategy. Green markets Hands on workshops centered on education about waste prevention and recycling of textiles, electronics, and compost Stop n’ Swap: Community reuse events throughout the five boroughs!
51 Chambers Street, Room 228 (Main Office) New York, New York 10007 212-788-7900
Build It Green!NYC: A charitable nonprofit organization whose mission is to facilitate affordable second-life applications for quality building materials with the purpose of generating green jobs and job training, supporting local environmental initiatives, and reducing our city's dependence on raw material consumption and landfilling.
Accepts donations of materials 7 days a week at their Queens and Brooklyn reuse centers! Offers free pick up services for large donations and provide deconstruction services for skim salvage of interiors. Resale of building materials at affordable prices Events and workshops related to recycling such as First Sunday of the Month: Composting events and education, drop off sites
Queens Reuse Center 3-17 26th Ave. Astoria, NY 781-777-0132 queens@bignyc.org Brooklyn Reuse Center 69 9th St. Gowanus, NY 718-7258925 brooklyn@bignyc.org
its inception in 2008, FBR has diverted over 450 tons of materials from the NYC waste stream.
Accepts Donations
Operates retail store and prop shop
Hosts workshops and events Art Cube recycling forum
540 President Street, Lower Level Brooklyn, NY 11215 347-384-2336 info@filmbizrecycling.org The S.H.I.T. list: Shared Independent Theater Donation/Reuse List! Fixers Collective: A social experiment in improvisational fixing and aggressive asset recovery. The Fixers Collective is a ProjectIn-Residence at Proteus Gowanus, in Brooklyn, where they host a variety of workshops. NYC WasteMatch Program: NYC's free, commercial materials exchange service! DonationDropOff.org: A web resource to help you find charities that will accept donations in your area. The directory includes listings of donation bins, donation centers and donation sites. You choose the charity. All of the charities in the donation drop off directory offer tax deduction receipts for donations.
Film Biz Recycling (FBR): A non profit organization that prevents pollution, creates jobs and aids our community by diverting set materials to local charities and operating a retail store, prop shop and creative reuse center in Brooklyn, NY. Since
Stay tuned for the spring when FAB will be organizing a physical Load Out event in the neighborhood!