Recycle your hard-to-recycle stuff
(Make a wee bit of money too)
850 households recycling in Brooklyn
35,700 pounds diverted from landfills
$3150 paid back to the community
How it works
Stop wishcycling
For $3 fill up a box with “all” your stuff such as old clothes, batteries and light bulbs. Nothing wet and weird please.
Give your stuff a second (or third) life
We keep 99% of your stuff out of the landfill. We do this by re-selling, repairing & recycling (in that order).
Know your impact, get a wee bit of cash back
You'll know where your stuff goes and if we can re-sell some of it we split the proceeds with you.
Got more questions?
It's $3 per box or bag of stuff we collect.
When we sell your items - through reuse or recycling - we pool 15% of the proceeds and then split the money among those who diverted during a given week. For instance, our recyclers in the first week of April got $7.90 back.
Some lightbulbs, a pile of clothes, a ziplock of batteries, some stuffed animals, a broken printer, a functional printer, an old iPhone, an older iPad, some cans of paint, a boulder of plastic bag (yes that's a thing)... you get the idea, we'll take pretty much anything as long as it's dry.
To most folks, recycling is a catch-all word for not putting stuff in an incinerator or a landfill. But to us, we will always try to re-use or repair anything you give us. If we can't, we work with vendors who specialize in recycling specific materials to get them back in the system accordingly.
If you're a numbers person think about what can fit in this volume: 18” x 12” x 12”. For the rest of us, it's about what would fit inside a medium Amazon box or a Fresh Direct bag.
You don't have to literally collect your stuff in a box. Any container will do!