Ever wonder what really happens to your plastic water bottle after you throw it in the recycling container? Recently, our Executive Director Harriet Taub took a morning to visit the Sims Metal Management recycling facility in Jersey City. Located on the …
Third Thursday: Easy Abstraction Workshop Free. Thursday, August 16, 6-8 pm Join Joy Suarez at Materials for the Arts to learn an easy and fun technique that uses items from the medicine cabinet and the kitchen pantry to create stunning …
With the rise in popularity of portable gadgets that have more than one function (my phone can play music, take pictures, do math, etc.), people have basically stopped using CDs–not to mention cassette tapes and records. Instead of throwing obsolete …
This Tuesday we opened up our warehouse to 17 college interns from Macy’s, as a part of their Intern Give Back Day. The day is part of Macy’s Partners in Time program, which coordinates year-round volunteering opportunities for the company’s …
We are thrilled that Haydee Naula is completing an internship with us this summer. Haydee first came to MFTA when she was working at PS 112 in Queens with the educational nonprofit (and MFTA recipient) City Year. In addition to …
At MFTA, donations make our world go round! We received (literally) tons of donations this month. Here are just a few of the generous donors who gave us all kinds of great items in June: We are glad that Patricia …
Myrna Perez Fung, Parent Coordinator at PS 188 Kingsbury, in Oakland Gardens, Queens, sent us a picture of this really cool dragon created by PTA parents for the school’s Lunar New Year Show. This dragon is a great example of something …
Established in 2004, by our partner within the New York City Department of Sanitation, the Bureau of Waste Prevention, Reuse, and Recycling, and housed at the City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering, the Materials Exchange Development Program …
City & State has a great article today about the Durst Organization and their efforts to green their offices by recycling, reusing, and composting. The article follows the journey of one Starbucks coffee cup collected from an office in the new …
Laura Blau from Millennium Art Academy in the Bronx sent these photos from a project she did with high school students. She recently used items from the warehouse in a historical and cultural art project in which students created masks from …
