Arts & Culture
With help from residents, local artist Amanda Patenaude is crafting a community mosaic of broken glass salvaged from Fort Greene Park. (Photo by Heather Chin/Fort Greene Focus)Glass is one of those materials that is endlessly changeable, able to be both beautiful and deadly, a masterpiece or mundane or
Events
Photo via parkservice [https://www.instagram.com/p/xof8_tqE3W/?tagged=mulchfest2015]Fort Greene Park holds the record for most trees mulched at a single site in Brooklyn — last year our team mulched 1,743 trees! [/blog/2015/01/13/fort-greene-parks-mulchfest-2015-sets-record/] — so let’s see if we can meet or
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Photo via parkservice [https://www.instagram.com/p/xof8_tqE3W/?tagged=mulchfest2015]Since the holidays are in full swing, Christmas trees have taken over the neighborhood. And while the thought of taking them down seems far away, recycling those trees will begin soon enough. But the Prospect Park Alliance [https:
Nonsponsored
Photo via parkservice [https://www.instagram.com/p/xof8_tqE3W/?tagged=mulchfest2015]Since the holidays are in full swing, Christmas trees have taken over the neighborhood. And while the thought of taking them down seems far away, recycling those trees will begin soon enough. But the Prospect Park Alliance [https:
Bensonhurst
Nicky Nguyen leaves pink recycling bags on the curb. (Photo by Camila Cibils) Nicky Nguyen carried two hot-pink plastic bags out of his house in Bath Beach on a recent weekday afternoon and left them at his curb. They contained old blankets, pillowcases, kids’ clothes, and jeans. His bags were
green
Photo by Park Slope StoopThe expanded organic waste recycling program began in our area this past Monday, and will happen on your regular garbage days. You’ll now be able to leave organic materials such as food waste, food-soiled paper, and yard waste at the curb, and the Department of
e-waste
Now that you can no longer leave electronics curbside for collection [/blog/sanitation/ban-on-trashing-tvs-computers-more-starts-in-2015], you’ll need to figure out alternative ways to get rid of that ancient tube television. One option: an upcoming e-waste recycling event [http://www.lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&
Kathryn Garcia
Worried you won’t be able to get your Chometz, other trash and recycling out before Passover begins this Friday, April 2? Fear not! Community Board 14 [http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/]has you covered. CB 14 announced that Department of Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia approved the board’s plan for
recycling
Source: Bensonhurst Bean [http://instagram.com/p/xo9xZCB_cW/?modal=true] InstagramGet ready for a cozy weekend indoors if you can manage it, as a cold and snowy mess is headed our way. A winter weather advisory is in effect [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/severeweather/index.page] from midnight
e-waste
Got old electronics gathering dust in your apartment? Toss them responsibly this Sunday, October 19 from 10am to 4pm, at the e-waste recycling event [http://lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=5387&Itemid=1&year=2014&month=10&day=
1733 sheepshead bay rd
Polina Groman and her husband Elliot. Source: SpinGreen via Forbes.While the city is in the middle of grappling with the explosion of for-profit, often shady, clothing donation bin companies [/illegal-clothing-bins-popping-sheepshead-bay-manhattan-beach/], one Sheepshead Bay-based company is getting recognition for doing it right. SpinGreen, based at 1733 Sheepshead Bay Road, was
electronics
Got an old PC, phone, or bunch of unidentified wires in your junk drawer? Then stop by the Lower East Side Ecology Center’s e-waste recycling event [http://lesecologycenter.org/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=3147&Itemid=1&year=2014&month=