Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has hailed the new 3-month public space recycling pilot program targeting busy parks and transportation facilities where significant amounts of recyclable materials, such as paper, plastic, and glass, are being deposited in trash receptacles and entering the waste stream.

From now through the end of June, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) will partner with the Department of Parks & Recreation and the Department of Transportation to provide recycling receptacles for bottles and cans, as well as for paper, at parks in all five boroughs and in both Staten Island Ferry Terminals.  DSNY may expand the pilot, one of the many new initiatives created by the historic Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) adopted last year, to additional locations this summer. 

Read the full New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Press Release