January 24, 2008

Council Member Robert Jackson attends Ribbon Cutting to initiate recycling at 75 Lasalle Street.

OROE staff attended the innaguration of the recycling binds to honor Team 75 which organized the tenants of their building to start recycling.

Congratulations to Grant Houses: One Community Leads the Way!

OROE congratulates the Tenants Association and the West Harlem Sanitation Action Coalition, and wishes to especially honor the newest community members to join the recycling effort at Grant Houses: Sharon Campbell, Linda Franklin and Effie Ross. 

In New York City, a full 35 percent of our waste can be recycled using our blue and green bins, yet on average just 17 percent—half–of our recyclables are put in the right place. 

At Grant Houses, a few neighbors cared enough about the state of their community, their city and their environment to raise their recycling rate from zero to thirty percent.  They've not only made it easy, they've made it possible for tenants here to do the right thing and recycle.

As OROE travels neighborhood to neighborhood working to increase recycling we tell all of New York City about how the efforts of a few at Grant Houses benefit many.  We celebrate the success of these individuals, whose contribution reaches far beyond the Grant Houses community.