LMS Post ~ Recycling in Public On the Rise in NYC!

This article shows a green foot forward for the city of NYC. I know it's small, but you have to start somewhere.

The evil LMS gods just dumped all the commentary I had written on this...grr! Shortworded- this is a good step towards dealing with waste management in public and paid for by budgetary reworking, which is nice.
Recycling in Public On the Rise in NYC!

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").