Holiday Recycling

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

The Holidays are a great opportunity to incorporate recycling into your daily routine.  With Thanksgiving coming up, many of us are reflecting on what we're thankful for.  At Boro Wide Recycling, we're thankful for this great planet we live on, and plan to spread the word to others about how they can help to take care of it!

Did you know that the there is 25% more trash produced during the Holiday season?  This amounts to a lot more waste.  What a perfect opportunity to recycle.  There are a lot of holiday items that you may have not realized are recyclable, especially items used for decorating.  Before the season begins, here are a list of items to "be in the know" about:

- Unwanted/Broken Holiday Lights
- Paper/Plastic Lawn Decorations
- Wrapping Paper (You can even re-use it!)
- Gift Boxes
- Used Cooking Oil
- Batteries
- Holiday Cards (Think GREEN and send out E-Cards this year!)
- Christmas Tree
- Wreaths/Garland

All the above items should be recycled this holiday season.  We hope you'll participate!  If we work together to recycle everyday, we can make the world a better place.  Call Boro-Wide Recycling for all you residential and commercial recycling needs!

Boro-Wide Can Help You In Disposing Of Your Waste!

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp. 

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656 

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

Are you renovating your home? Or maybe cleaning our an attic or basement? You can count on Boro-Wide Recycling to make disposing your waste easier than ever!

Boro-Wide can provide you with an environmentally sound and cost effective way to dispose of any waste that you may be collecting. Boro-Wide has roll-off containers that can either be placed in your driveway or on the street. After your waste is collected in the roll-off containers, Boro-Wide experts will transfer the waste that was collected to their construction and demolition transfer station or recycling facility where it will be sorted through for proper disposal.

Boro-Wide has a number of available roll-off container sizes including:

• 5 cubic yards = 7’ X 11’ X 2’
• 10 cubic yards = 8’ X 11’ X 4’
• 20 cubic yards = 8’ X 11’ X 6’
• 30 cubic yards = 8’ X 22’ X 6’
• 40 cubic yards = 8’ X 22’ X 8’

Contact Boro-Wide Recycling today to make disposing of your waste easier than ever before! For more information, visit our Facebook page linked HERE! 

A Subway to Collect Garbage in NYC!

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

Imagine if New York City had its own subway system to collect garbage? Envac, a company from Sweden, is in discussion with agencies in the New York Area including neighborhood groups and private developers about erecting its vacuum systems for collecting garbage in select locations around New York. 

Garbage vacuums work pretty much like those pneumatic tube systems found in “modern” buildings from the early 20^th Century. You put your garbage—or recycling and/or compostables—into the appropriate receptacle. A few seconds later and, whooooosh, a trapdoor opens that drops your disposables into a set of vacuum tubes. Suddenly, your trash is flying along silently at 50 miles per hours from the powers of vacuum suction toward the recycling center, a biofuel/composting center or an incinerator. 

Envac installed one of its garbage vacuum systems in Roosevelt Island, a thin strip of land in the shadow of Manhattan in the 1970’s. At this time, Envac also installed one of its vacuum systems in Disney World. Currently, plans are under consideration to extend the network to technology campuses being erected on the island by Cornell University and the Technion. 

Also, Envac is studying the possibility of putting networks of trash tubes under the Coney Island boardwalk, in a new development being created by major property companies, and near the Chelsea district in Manhattan. The vacuum operated garbage systems would leverage some of the infrastructure of the High Line, an urban development created from an old elevated train platform. If all works out, pedestrians will be walking underneath trash-filled tubes. Rosina Abramson, in charge of running Envacs’ United States operations says “We can retrofit in dense urban areas so we don’t have to rip up the street.” 

You may ask why this is necessary or important to consider in the New York area? If you think about it, humans now actually cater to their garbage, not the other way around. You store your trash at home all week until Trash Day comes. Cities invest millions a year on trucks specially designed for garbage and employ armies of men and women to usher it along.

With vacuum networks, trash collection gets largely automated. Most garbage trucks can be taken off the streets, eliminating traffic and noise. Receptacles overflowing with food cartons and newspapers disappear. You’re looking at the equivalent of three dumpsters in the picture. Envac needs electricity to create the suction inside of its vacuum tubes, but the diesel consumption avoided means carbon dioxide is reduced with these networks. There will be no odors, no spills, and no vermin. The vacuum systems also facilitate recycling because you just drop your garbage in and there it goes. 

Envac and some developers are even studying the possibility of adding a “pay as you throw” feature to some networks. Residents in a residential complex would only be able to open the doors to the receptacles in their area with RFID cards. A sensor would then weigh the garbage, recyclables and compostables and provide the data for monthly, personalized trash bills. No more subsidizing the slothful.

For more information, visit the article "Will New York City Get A Subway For Garbage," published by Forbes, and linked HERE, or visit BoroWideRecycling.com. 

And The Green City Awards Go To…

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

Waste & Recycling News has announced the finalists in its annual Green City Awards competition!

The Green City Awards recognizes cities, districts, counties, and towns that have shown exceptional leadership toward their residential recycling programs. 

Although there were many excellent applicants for the Green City Awards, only 9 finalists will be considered for 3 awards- 1 for small cities, medium cities, and large cities (wasterecyclingnews.com) 

Here is the list of finalists for each category, presented by wasterecyclingnews.com. 

• Small Cities (Fewer than 100,000 residents): Allen, TX; City of Whiting, IN; Rockville, MD. 
• Medium Cities (100,000-500,000 residents): Ann Arbor, MI; Anaheim, CA; Bellevue, WA. 
• Large Cities (More than 500,000 residents): Regional Municipality of Halton, Ontario; Honolulu, HI; San Jose, CA. 

To view the full article, and the programs promoted by each finalist, click HERE!

Check out borowiderecycling.com or our Facebook page HERE to see how we can help New York become a Greener city! 

Cuomo’s Plan To Conserve Energy

Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.

Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656

www.BoroWideRecycling.com

Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that starting Monday, March 19^th, the “Buy Green, Save Green NYS High-Efficiency Appliance Rebate Program,” will be available to New York residents for the purchase of high-efficiency ENERGY STAR® refrigerators and clothes washers (governor.ny.gov). 

“The rebate program gives residents the funding to make their homes more energy efficient, it makes it possible for New Yorkers to spend less on energy costs, and it provides a needed boost to retailers across the state,” said Governor Cuomo (governor.ny.gov). 

Thanks to funding by the U.S. Department of Energy’s State Energy Program, rebates of $350 will be given out for high-efficiency refrigerators and $250 for high-efficiency clothes washers that meet Consortiumfor Energy Efficiency (CEE) super-efficiency levels- tiers of 2 and 3 (governor.ny.gov). 

Francis J. Murray Jr., president and CEO of NYSERDA says, “Refrigerators and clothes washers are the appliances where we can make the biggest energy efficient gains,” (governor.ny.gov).  They use significantly less electricity than the federal standard, and super-efficient clothes washers use less water than standard washing machines (governor.ny.gov).

If you would like a high-efficiency ENERGY STAR ® refrigerator or clothes washer, you’ll have to act quickly. Rebates will be awarded on a first-come, first-service basis, and purchases of these products before the 19^th will not be eligible (governor.ny.gov). 

Click HERE to view the full article on the Household Appliance Rebate Program. 

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