Office of Recycling Outreach and Education

The Office of Recycling Outreach & Education (OROE) works 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.

OROE was created in 2006 when the City Council passed Mayor Bloomberg’s landmark Solid Waste Management Plan.

Learn for yourself about OROE’s work on Traction for Life: Material Mondays, a video interview featuring OROE’s David Hurd which aired this week on Sundance Channel’s The Green.