Fifteen years ago, America Recycles Day was established to raise awareness of recycling and how it can benefit the environment. Today, people all over the country are hosting special recycling awareness events in their communities and making an extra effort …
Just like fabric, paper, and ribbon from the MFTA warehouse can become an art project, did you know that your leftover food scraps can also be reused? That’s right – composting lets you turn your banana peels, apple cores, newspaper, …
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 …
Teachers are hard at work this week creating all kinds of fiber art projects in our Raw Fibers course! They’re weaving on things like CD cases, sequin honey comb, and mesh from the warehouse–they also created their own looms out …
The recycling symbol is used worldwide, but there’s no emblem for the act of reuse. Earth911 challenges you to design a universal reuse symbol!
Shanna contributes regularly to our Facebook page, and I’m thrilled that she’s started to blog! She has been with us since October 2011, helping schools and teachers register to receive MFTA supplies, lending a hand during school group visits, and assisting warehouse staff …
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 …
This weekend Bill and Melinda Gates weighed in on schools, teaching, and education reform in the Wall Street Journal. The Gates summarize a Scholastic study commissioned by their foundation, which found that teachers want (surprise!) “more involvement from parents, more …
At MFTA, a group of teachers is learning to turn junk mail, beverage containers, and all kinds of scrap paper into handmade paper during our P credit course “Paper: From Pulp to Fiction.” We started by raiding our scrap paper …
