New York Recycles! Events
Saturday, October 18, 2008
What: Green Halloween
Where: Montezuma Audubon Center, Savannah, NY
Time: 11:00 am - 2:00 pm
Contact: Carol Stokes-Cawley: cstokes-cawley@audubon.org
Sunday, October 26, 2008
What: The 'Hows and Whys of Recycling - The New York Team of the Global Sports Alliance is teaming up with Keep Rockland Beautiful at a Rockland County Fall Ball softball game
Where: North Rockland High School, Thiells, NY
Time: 9:15 am
Friday, November 14, 2008
What: America/New York Recycles Day Celebration - a school assembly sponsored by the Westorchard PTA Environment Committee
Where: Westorchard School, Chappaqua, NY
Ongoing
What: All schools in Wayne and Yates counties have received information and are being encouraged to sign pledges with the possibility of winning an ice cream social for the whole school, courtesy of Perry's Ice Cream and Wegman's Markets.
Where: Wayne and Yates counties
Contact: Marjorie Torelli: MTorelli@co.wayne.ny.us, Western Finger Lakes Authority at 315-946-7656
Saturday and Sunday, November 15-16, 2008
What: "Green Screens" Electronic Recycling Event - Green your routine. Drop off unwanted computers, TVs, cell phones, radios, cameras, VCRs and other electronics for free at any of the locations listed below. This small step is an important one to reduce the estimated 87.5% of e-waste that goes to landfills. Presented by NBC Universal, WNBC and GREENYC
TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
WHERE: Various locations throughout the City:
Manhattan
Saturday only: Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building Plaza
W. 126th St. bet. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. and Malcolm X Blvd.
Sunday only: Cooper Square
Cooper Square bet. E. 6th and 7th Sts.
The Bronx
Saturday and Sunday: Joyce Kilmer Park
Grand Concourse bet. E. 161st and 163rd Sts.
Brooklyn
Saturday and Sunday: McCarren Park, Williamsburg
Staten Island
Saturday and Sunday: Staten Island Mall
2655 Richmond Avenue at Parking Lot F
Queens
Saturday and Sunday: Cunningham Park
Union Turnpike bet. 196th Place and 197th Street
FOR MORE INFORMATION, learn more at nbcnewyork.com or call 311.
Contact: Sarah McCue: smccue@nycvisit.com, 212-484-5445
