NYCHA Wastes No Time Preparing to Meet Recycling Goals
recycling initiative to staff who will be instrumental to its success.
Thirty-five property management supervisors and caretakers were busy in the Ceremonial Room on April 19 placing plastic water bottles, metal cans, milk cartons and a cardboard pizza box in the proper blue or green receptacles. Green was for containers holding mixed paper and cardboard, and blue was for metal, rigid plastic, glass, and cartons.
This exercise was a small part of the in-depth training on NYCHA’s recycling initiative hosted by NYCHA and the NYC Department of Sanitation for more than 400 development staff in 10 sessions conducted in March and April.
“We conducted the classes to prepare staff for our recycling program that will bring NYCHA into compliance with the NYC Recycling Laws by 2016 and meet the City’s Zero Waste goal by 2030,” said Elena Tenchikova, the Management Services Department project manager spearheading this initiative. “Training property management staff is a key component to successfully introducing recycling at every development,” Ms. Tenchikova said.
In spring of 2015, NYCHA launched recycling training with classes for approximately 250 borough property management staff co-presented by GrowNYC and Resident Engagement. NYCHA’s systematic approach to deploying the recycling program is based on an evaluation of prior efforts and a study of privately managed locations and innovative programs.
Kick-off meetings are held with residents before recycling requirements begin at each development.
