As some of you know, from word-of-mouth, reading the blog or participating, Green in BKLYN is recycling clean #5 plastics.  Well, really what we’re doing is collecting #5 plastics & sending them off to one of the wonderful companies we work with for them to recycle into amazing products.  The company, Preserve, turns those #5 plastics into things like mixing bowls,  toothbrushes, razors & cutting boards, which are returned to Green in BKLYN for us to share with you.

Since they launching the Gimme 5 Program, Preserve has collected over 45,000 pounds of #5s.  That is the equivalent of over 2.9 million 6 oz. yogurt cups.

If you’d like to participate, drop off your clean #5 plastics at Green in BKLYN & we’ll send them on to Preserve.

Number 5 plastics are marked with a “5” inside a triangle somewhere on the bottom of the item.  Said items usually are yogurt containers or take-out containers.  The groovy thing is they’re recyclable.  The not so groovy thing is that’s not true in NYC.  So off to Preserve they’ll go to transcend into toothbrushes, razors, food containers, bowls, cutting boards & so on.  All dishwasher safe & BPA free.  Pretty cool for leftover plastic.

PS – We also take batteries for recycling (for just 5 cents/battery).