Garbage, Recycling
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. The founding organizations of the Alliance are: Buffalo First!, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Partnership for the Public Good, Olmsted Center for Sight and the Sierra Club Niagara Group.
If you’d like to help create the Buffalo Recycling Alliance, email or call Sam Magavern, sam@ppgbuffalo.org, 852-4191, ext. 117.
Press Conference on Thursday, May 10
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:
- Dan Genco, Olmsted Center for Sight
- Rahwa Ghirmatzion, Partnership for the Public Good
- Sam Magavern, Partnership for the Public Good
- Cara Matteliano, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
- Lynda Schneekloth, Sierra Club Niagara Group
- Brian Smith, Citizens Campaign for the Environment
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.
PPG Research and Publications on Recycling
Reshaping Buffalo’s Recycling Initiatives
Multi-Family Residences and Recycling
Greening Buffalo: What Local Governments Can Do
–Greening Executive Summary and Recommendations
Deconstruction
–Research
- Cooney, Sean. Residential Deconstruction in Buffalo (2007)
- Faleski, Erik. The Potential of Deconstruction in Buffalo, NY (2007)
- Stahl, Tara. Integrating Deconstruction and Recycling into the Demolition Process in Buffalo, NY (2007).
–Organizations
Garbage and Recycling
–Pay As You Throw (PAYT) Municipal Solid Waste Collection
–Resources from Other Cities