i went to volunteer training at the Office of Recycling Outreach and Education (for nyc). did you know that new york city residents produce 12,000 tons of trash per day? 7.5% of that is plastic film (grocery bags, plastic wrap…) & 5.7% is clothing/textiles.[1] and we recycle 17% of our trash but 35% of our trash is recyclable. so that means… we’re throwing away over 2,000 tons of recyclable stuff a day into the regular garbage to be incinerated or buried in a landfill. EVERY DAY!

also, the recycling program makes money for new york city. so it’s like we’re throwing away $.

anyway. now i can attend events and sit at a table & hand out stickers & tell people about recycling and waste reduction. making less trash is better than recycling!

btw, why is it always women at these volunteer things. why the fk aren’t there more guys volunteering? i’ve even asked my guy friends to come with me (especially the chronically single guys), and they won’t come! i almost got lunchbox to come to this session with me but he had a last-minute work thing.

[1] these numbers are from cenyc.org. also, textiles can be recycled at union square on certain days!

april-may-june were spent sporadically scrambling around getting the block party application together.