Go Green This Weekend With Events At The Flatbush Food Coop

This coming weekend, the Flatbush Food Coop (1415 Cortelyou Road between Rugby and Marlborough Roads) will be hosting its second annual Flatbush Green Weekend — which translates to two days chock full of free eco-friendly events that are open to everyone. Here’s what’s on the schedule for the event, which the coop is presenting in conjunction with the Flatbush Development Corporation, CAMBA and The Lower East Side Ecology Center:

Electronic Waste Recycling
Saturday, April 25, 10am-4pm
Drop off your unwanted or broken electronics for environmentally safe disposal. Items that will be accepted include working and non-working computers, monitors, printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, cables, TVs, VCRs, DVD players, phones, audio/visual equipment, cell phones and PDAs. Click here for more information.

Shredzilla Document Shredding
Saturday, April 25, 10am-2pm
The Shredzilla document shredding truck will be on hand to provide secure recycling of confidential papers. There is a suggested donation of $5 per bag of documents to be shredded.

CAMBA Food Drive
Sunday, April 26, 12pm-4pm
Representatives of our neighborhood’s local nonprofit CAMBA will collect items to support their emergency food pantry, which helps more than 4,300 Brooklyn residents every month.

Transportation Alternatives
Sunday, April 26, 12pm-4pm
Transportation Alternatives, a nonprofit that promotes bicycling, walking and public transportation, will be on hand to distribute Brooklyn cycling maps and other information about biking safely in the city.