Partnership for the Public Good (PPG) Buffalo, NY

Big News for Buffalo Recycling

Help form the Buffalo Recycling Alliance!

The City of Buffalo has dramatically increased its residential recycling rates with its new totes.  PPG and its allies want to build on that success with a Buffalo Recycling Alliance that will work to increase recycling and reduce waste at businesses, multi-family residences, schools, and events through education, collaboration, and advocacy. 

If you’d like to help create the Buffalo Recycling Alliance, email or call Sam Magavern, sam@ppgbuffalo.org, 852-4191, ext. 117. 

Join us for a press conference launching the Alliance on Thursday, May 10 at 10:00am at the Olmsted Center for Sight, 1170 Main Street  Buffalo, 14209. Speakers will include representatives from each of the founding organizations: Buffalo First!, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Partnership for the Public Good, Olmsted Center for Sight, and the Sierra Club of Niagara.

Find out more about the Alliance and other resources for recycling here.

New Publications

Multi-Family Residences and Recycling

Businesses and Recycling

Lessons from Other Cities

You can find the PPG policy brief on Buffalo recycling here.

Recycling on the Radio

PPG  has a radio show, the Public Good, each Tuesday from 1:00 to 1:30 pm on WUFO AM 1080.  Each week we feature a PPG Partner or other person working toward the public good and discuss some of the region’s hottest issues.

On Tuesday, May 1, our guest is Katie Duggan-Haas of Modern Recycling. Listen on your radio or at www.wufoam.com.

Heart of the City’s, “No Place Like Home” May 9

PPG Partner, Heart of the City Neighborhoods, Inc., presents “No Place Like Home” a community breakfast Series. The series explores different housing issues relevant to our City of Buffalo.

The third installation of this series on May 9th will look at vacant housing, a problem plaguing our city. “Boarding Up Our Burdens: How Vacant Houses are Draining Our Neighborhoods” will explore the cost of vacant houses on our city and creative solutions for combating the blight. The information provided can be used in your own neighborhood and those you work in, to ensure a better quality of life for all.

PPG’s own Sam Magavern will be presenting on “Innovative Ways to Take Back Our Neighborhoods.”

Breakfast starts at 8:30am and the lecture begins at 9:00am. The event is being held at Temple Beth Zion, 805 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, 14209.

The program is free and open to the public.

Preregistration is encouraged for this event to ensure your participation.
Register by clicking here or visiting the HOCN Facebook “Event Registration” page.