Our Mission

The Residential Reuse and Recycling Committee aims to develop tools and conduct outreach to promote practices that will increase resident participation in reduce, reuse, and recycling programs.

Our Goals

Ensure that curbside collection of waste follows optimal recycling and reuse behaviors among all stakeholders. Ensure that each stakeholder assumes their responsibility in taking on these behaviors:

  1. Producers assume responsibility for the material used in their packaging.

  2. Consumers assume responsibility for reusing products to the fullest extent possible and correctly sort materials into the waste stream.

  3. Property owners and managers, coop and condo boards and resident managers assume responsibility for recycling and reuse by staff and residents.

  4. Building staff correctly bag the recycled materials.

  • Generate EPR PPP talking points

  • Educate MSWAB on PPP EPR and product recovery vs. recyclability

  • Diagram regional recycling infrastructure

  • Generate and distribute a NYC principals of packaging design guide

  • Assess effectiveness of Local Law 69 of 2013, an EPR for refrigerants

our tasks

  • Enact a city-wide mandatory recycling lease rider and annual tenant letter

  • Explore transparent trash bags city-wide with post-consumer resin content to easily identify material

  • Expand distribution of existing Residential Recycling guide

  • Generate and distribute a Reuse Guide for multifamily building.

  • Support NYPSC EPR packaging and paper products (PPP) efforts

Committee Members

  • Wendy Frank

  • Katie Hanner

  • John Reali

  • Mike Rieser

  • Allison A. Allen

  • Joyce Bialik (Chair)

  • Ellen Cooper

  • Skip Delano

  • Martin Robinson

  • Rick Schulman

  • Amy Uong