How is the Office of Recycling Outreach and Education different from the NYC Department of Sanitation?
The NYC Department of Sanitation, the world’s largest sanitation department, is the uniform service agency that keeps our city clean by effectively managing our 12,000 tons of residential and institutional refuse and recycling waste each day. The Office of Recycling Outreach and Education is a program of the nonprofit organization, the GrowNYC. We work to increase participation in New York City’s curbside recycling program using a grassroots, community-by-community strategy. Our borough-wide coordinators work to identify the specific challenges to recycling in a neighborhood and address those needs with targeted workshops for tenants and supers, community events centered on education, and special collection programs for textiles, electronics, and compost.
