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The free UWSR Eco Letter comes from Upper West Side Recycling six times a year. Each Eco Letter lists events taking place during the following two or three months and also includes a Commentary on an environmental topic relevant to the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We urge you to distribute this important information to appropriate people in your network and refer them to our website (www.uwsr.org).

Make sure to open and save a copy of our Hard-to-Recycle List for more information on how to recycle a wide variety of items, as well as our list of Environmental Organizations.

Please email us at [email protected] with any information you may have about upcoming environmental events for our consideration.

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New York City Water Supply System 

Water – it’s a part of every day. You fill your tea kettle or coffee maker, you brush your teeth, flush a toilet, wash dishes, take a shower, maybe water your plants or keep yourself hydrated. For brief moments we may feel grateful to have a readily available supply of clean and safe water, but more often we don’t give it much thought.

In fact, New York City has some of the best water in the world, and it’s delivered to us from an extraordinary system that began to take form over 150 years ago. That system draws from a nearly 2,000-square-mile watershed that reaches 125 miles northwest of the City and spans portions of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains. It consists of 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a combined storage capacity of 550 billion gallons, enough to supply NYC for over a year and a half. The water from these reservoirs and lakes flows into aqueducts, tunnels and pipes that deliver it directly to our taps, the majority of which arrives by gravity feed alone.

Every day the New York City Water Supply System provides more than one billion gallons of clean and safe water to more than 8.5 million residents and to millions of tourists and commuters who visit the City throughout the year. It also supplies another 110 million gallons a day to about one million people living in outlying counties. This means that the New York City Water Supply System provides nearly half the population of New York State with high-quality water. ...

Sometimes we're notified of events after we send you the current bi-monthly issue. Be sure to check here on our website to see any updates.

(See also our Hard-to-Recycle List)

Lower East Side Ecology; 212-477-4022.  Hosts E-Waste recycling events during the year throughout Manhattan. Events occur as scheduled, rain or shine.  

Accepted (unless otherwise noted): Computers and peripherals (monitors, printers, faxes/scanners, keyboards, mice, wires, etc.); TVs; stereo and A/V equipment, VCRs, DVD players; cell and wall phones.

Not Accepted: Microwaves, small appliances, refrigerators, air conditioners, smoke or carbon monoxide detectors. If you're not sure about a given item, check with Lower East Side Ecology before you bring it (212-477-4022).

Ongoing: Functioning cell phones and chargers can be donated to the Office of Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, 245 West 104th Street. Info: 212.866.3970.

(See also our Hard-to-Recycle List)

Wearable Collections will pick up from your building (for more details see our Hard-to-Recycle List).

Accepted by Wearable Collections: Clean textiles, including clothing and shoes, handbags, blankets, sheets, curtains, towels, etc.

Not Accepted: Scraps, pillows, comforters, luggage or carpeting.

Collection of textiles at some sites as been temporarily suspended. Check the Grow NYC website for current status.

77th/79th Street Greenmarket [79th & Columbus Avenue], 9:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Sundays; Columbia University Greenmarket [Broadway between 115th-116th Streets], 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Thursdays and Sundays

Check the Grow NYC website for an up-to-date list of locations and hours for locations to recycle textiles. For information: Grow NYC, (212) 788-7964. Events occur as scheduled, rain or shine.

The Morningside Park Down-to-Earth Farmers Market (110th & Manhattan Avenue), accepts textiles from 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m., Saturdays. Info: Down to Earth.

Also, United War Veterans Council, Salvation Army, and Goodwill will pick up from residential buildings. So will re-fashion NYC (new enrollments are on hold, but you may now submit an application). See the Textiles Section of our Hard-to-Recycle List for more specific information.

Other Recycling/Solid Waste 

(See also our Hard-to-Recycle List)

Year-round Greenmarkets and food scrap drop-off locations in Upper Manhattan that accept food waste include locations at: Tucker Square Greenmarket [66^th Street and Columbus Avenue]; 79^th Street Greenmarket [77^th Street betw. Columbus Avenue and Central Park West]; 97^th Street Greenmarket [West 97^th & Amsterdam Avenue]; Columbia University Greenmarket [West 116^th Street and Broadway]; St. Mary's Harlem Food Scrap Drop-off, 521 West 126th Street; 181st Street and Fort Washington Avenue; Inwood Greenmarket, Isham Street and Seaman Avenue (north corner). (See Grow NYC for status and hours or our Hard-to-Recycle List for more information and other locations).

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