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What plastic film and wrap to recycle

 

Please recy­cle only clean, dry plas­tic bags and film. Remove receipts or any oth­er items from bags.

Examples include:

    • Retail, car­ry­out, pro­duce, news­pa­per, bread, and dry clean­ing bags (clean, dry and free of receipts and clothes hangers)
    • Zip-top food stor­age bags (clean and dry)
    • Plastic ship­ping envelopes (remove labels), bub­ble wrap and air pil­lows (deflate)
    • Product wrap on cas­es of water/soda bot­tles, paper tow­els, nap­kins, dis­pos­able cups, bath­room tis­sue, dia­pers, and female san­i­tary products
    • Furniture and elec­tron­ic wrap
    • Plastic cere­al box lin­ers (but if it tears like paper, do not include)
    • Any film pack­ag­ing or bag that has the How2Recycle Label shown at right

*Not all items are accept­ed at all drop-off loca­tions. Check with your local drop-off to see what is accepted.

Do not include!
    • Degradable/compostable bags or film packaging
    • Pre-washed sal­ad mix bags
    • Frozen food bags
    • Candy bar wrappers
    • Chip bags
    • Six-pack rings
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Fire safety

Dear Neighbors,

If you fol­low local news, you will have heard about the cat­a­stroph­ic fire at 775 Riverside Drive on 8th January, which injured over a dozen peo­ple and dis­placed the own­ers and res­i­dents of 131 units in the build­ing. The full extent of the dam­age to the build­ing is still under evaluation.

Fire mar­shals believe that the fire began with an over­heat­ing toast­er and quick­ly over­took the build­ing by trav­el­ing through a dumb­wait­er shaft and up under the build­ing’s roof. What began as a small kitchen acci­dent quick­ly turned into a catastrophe.

This tragedy serves as a reminder to all of us about fire safety–the safe oper­a­tion of elec­tri­cal appli­ances and equip­ment, nev­er leav­ing open flames unat­tend­ed, keep­ing well-main­tained fire extin­guish­ers in our apart­ments, and assur­ing that smoke and car­bon monox­ide detec­tors are work­ing through­out the build­ing. It is also imper­a­tive that fire escapes remain com­plete­ly unim­ped­ed, so noth­ing of any sort should ever be stored on fire escapes. We are all depen­dent upon one anoth­er for dili­gence in pre­vent­ing a fire in our build­ing and in edu­cat­ing our­selves about what to do should a fire break out. Please be diligent!

The FDNY has a help­ful web­site with a lot of infor­ma­tion about fire safe­ty. You can find it here.

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