Sure We Can
@surewecannyc.bsky.social
Sure We Can is a non-profit recycling/bottle & can redemption center, community space, and sustainability hub in Brooklyn, NY. 🌈🌱🎨♻️🌳 linktr.ee/surewecan
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September is Upon Us! — Sure We Can
Dear friend, I hope the summer is treating you well! August is an interesting month in NYC; while we don’t necessarily practice the much-praised habit of many Europeans in taking the entire month off...
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RECYCLED CULTURE ⚙ ♻️ 9/13 Join us for a community festival with music, performances, and visual artworks that all incorporate and transform found and discarded objects. 🎟 Tickets at 🔗 recycledculture.eventbrite.com
Sure We Can is the only redemption center that directly supports canners by providing space & amenities to meet their needs in both their work and their lives. Your support is critical to sustain this service! Make a donation at 🔗 mightycause.com/story/sustainswc
Help sustain SWC so we can continue to provide our unique and compassionate style of redemption service! Learn more & make a donation at 🔗 www.mightycause.com/story/sustainswc 💌
🗞💚 www.surewecan.org/newsletter/2026/7/29/help-redeem-the-redemption-system
Help Redeem the Redemption System! — Sure We Can
Dear friend, Times are tough. It’s not very insightful to say it, but there it is. The last two years have strained at the bonds that hold our communities together, pushing individuals and organizati...
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Thanks so much to the NYC Bar Association's Environmental Law Committee for braving the storm last Saturday to help out at Sure We Can! 🌧 ⭐️ Want to set up a volunteer opportunity with your group at Sure We Can? Reach out to us! (info@surewecan.org)
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Sure We Can@surewecannyc.bsky.social · 2mo agoOn 9/13, Sure We Can will host a celebration of Recycled Culture, an open-ended artistic bazaar with music, performance, visual art, food, +. We're looking for artists who engage with recycling on any level. Please respond to this form if you're interested in participating! forms.gle/NUwrZkQFDaAG...
On 9/13, Sure We Can will host a celebration of Recycled Culture, an open-ended artistic bazaar with music, performance, visual art, food, +. We're looking for artists who engage with recycling on any level. Please respond to this form if you're interested in participating! forms.gle/NUwrZkQFDaAG...
Call for Artists - Recycled Culture at Sure We Can
Sure We Can is a Brooklyn-based community organization and redemption center that serves the folks who collect and redeem bottles and cans in order to make money. Its East Williamsburg site is a nexus...
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🚨ALERT: The Braven "chemical recycling" facility appears shut down after environmental violations in North Carolina, underscoring "chemical recycling"’s persistent failures. Beyond Plastics urges policymakers at all levels to stop treating pyrolysis and “chemical recycling” as credible solutions
Sure We Can is now offering a free mobile bottle & can pickup service! 🗑⭐♻️ (1/3)
It's the last week of the 2026 legislative session - we're hosting one more call relay to get our message to the Senate Majority Leader and Assembly Speaker that we need to pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill (S5684/A6543). Please sign-up here & make some calls today/tomorrow! tinyurl.com/Bottle2026
Bottle Bill call-in day sign-up sheet
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"On behalf of the Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island Chapter and our 200-plus members on the East End of Long Island, we thank Assemblyman Tommy John Schiavoni for putting constituents’ health — and pocketbooks — above chemical industry profits by co-sponsoring this bill.
📰 @nypirg.bsky.social in the news: "[Gov. Kathy Hochul] says I want to do the budget 'til I get my non-budget items. She gets paid while that happens. The Legislature doesn't, so she just grinds them down." -NYPIRG Senior Policy Advisor @blairhorner.bsky.social spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
Could this year’s state budget blues prompt the N.Y. Legislature to act?
The issue, which has been articulated over and over again, is that the governor in New York state holds much of the power in budget negotiations.
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Blair Horner of NYPIRG discusses why New York needs a Bigger Better Bottle Bill to address NY's solid waste crisis and save taxpayer dollars! spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...
New York Public Interest Research Group discusses updating bottle recycling law
Blair Horner discusses Capital Tonight.
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Join us Tuesday in Columbus Park! — Sure We Can
Dear friend, I’m writing this on the way home from Albany, which can feel like it’s on another planet. In Albany, things that seem straightforward are in fact hopelessly complex. It's a place where t...
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☀️♻️🌻 Our next volunteer day is coming up May 22! Join us to help sort bottles & cans on their way to being recycled. Sign up: www.bit.ly/swc-may2026-volunteer
☀️♻️🌻 Our next volunteer day is coming up May 22! Join us to help sort bottles & cans on their way to being recycled. Sign up: www.bit.ly/swc-may2026-volunteer
We need your help to urge Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (@speakercarlheastie.bsky.social) to bring the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (bill number A1749A) to a vote ASAP. Tag him below & give his office a call 518-455-3791 or 718-654-6539 #prria #plasticpollution #heastie
🦋 This Earth Day (April 22) join Sure We Can from 5-7 for an educational panel with local experts on the work of NYC's canners and their role in the city's waste & recycling landscape. Followed by a happy hour for a chance to mingle & discuss with snacks & drinks! www.eventbrite.com/e/canning-in...
Canning in NYC: Community Panel @ Sure We Can Recycling Center
Learn about canners & the NYC recycling landscape.
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🌷🗞 www.surewecan.org/newsletter/2026/4/9/you-can-never-hold-back-spring
You Can Never Hold Back Spring — Sure We Can
Dear friend, Spring has sprung! What a relief to transition from heaps of snow and frozen wind to gentler air and budding trees. Even as it seems like the world is spinning out of control, I think it’s worth it to stop and enjoy the weather. Earth Day is coming up, and for me it’s a good time to re
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Join us April 14 for the opening of Siyan Wong's exhibition & silent auction at Welcome to Chinatown! The auction will fund a one-day pop up redemption site on May 26 that simulates the Bigger Better Bottle Bill by paying canners 10c per can rather than the current 5c per can. RSVP: bit.ly/4txV2LY
On Saturday, April 25, join us to take part in Brooklyn Org’s annual Volunteer Day—a borough-wide effort to support the nonprofits that make Brooklyn’s communities stronger. Sign up to volunteer with Sure We Can on April 25th from 12-2 brooklyn.org/VolunteerDay
💚🌷♻️ Earth Day is coming up! Join us 3-5 to help clean up the neighborhood, sort bottles & cans for recycling, and prepare our garden! Then, from 5-7 join us for a panel to hear from community experts about canning, advocacy, & recycling in NYC, followed by a happy hour. 🔗 bit.ly/swc-earthday-2026
Thank you to the Teens for Food Justice team for their hard work & enthusiasm while volunteering at Sure We Can last week! 💚
👀 ¿Ya te registraste para la nueva fecha de nuestra asamblea comunitaria? ¡Acompáñanos el martes 31 de marzo, de 6:00 a 7:30 p. m., para una asamblea sobre Saneamiento y Transporte, y habla directamente con representantes del DSNY y el DOT! RSVP: tinyurl.com/D37DOTDSNY26
👀Did you register for our new town hall date yet? Join us on Tuesday, March 31st from 6:00 to 7:30 PM for a Sanitation and Transportation town hall and speak directly with representatives from DSNY & DOT! RSVP: tinyurl.com/D37DOTDSNY26
