Bigger Better Bottle Bill Advocacy Day
On Tuesday, January 28, 2025, grassroots volunteers and organizations will gather in Albany to urge the NY Legislature to adopt the Bigger Better Bottle Bill and the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act! These bills will help cut single-use plastic, address plastic pollution, reduce emissions, protect environmental justice communities, increase reuse, and give recycling a much-needed lifeline by making producers pay for their packaging waste.
Volunteer Day
Join us for a volunteer day to learn from Sure We Can staff and community members about the day-to-day work of bottle and can collecting and sorting. Volunteers will participate in sorting materials that will then be directly recycled! No particular special skills are required, just a willingness to get a little dirty and to help us dig through the valuable materials that others throw away!
Make sure to dress warm as this event will take place outdoors.
Age requirements: All Ages! 14+ can join w/o guardian. Under 14 years guardian required.
Fundraiser Launch!
Day 1 of our end of year fundraiser!
We’re announcing a very special milestone–the opening of our first expansion site, a new redemption center in the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York!
We'll be transforming an empty 3,500 sqft lot right under Broadway Junction into another community oriented and supportive redemption center. With your help, we will raise $30,000 by the end of the year towards this exciting expansion!!
Learn more & donate: 🔗 bit.ly/swc-satellite
One of the first 20 donors who give over $20 will be randomly selected to win a free Sure We Can hoodie!
Sure We Can Birthday & Halloween Party!
Join us to celebrate Sure We Can's 17th birthday, spooky style, with an afternoon of costumes, games, pumpkin carving, refreshments, live music, and more!
Open House New York festival
On October 20th, from 12-4, we're opening our doors for the 22nd Annual Open House New York Weekend festival!
Virtual event: How a modernized Bottle Bill can reduce waste and what you can do to help!
Join the Bottle Bill 40 Coalition and New York is Not Disposable on Tuesday, October 8 at 6pm for a virtual, info-and-action-packed, energizing hour focused on reducing trash, litter, and climate emissions with the New York Bigger Better Bottle Bill.
The Bottle Bill has been one of the most effective recycling bills in New York's history - and it needs critical updates to recover billions more containers from the waste stream, promote environmental justice, reduce single-use plastic bottles, and support green jobs. The Bigger Better Bottle Bill has been introduced by Senator May (S237-C) and Assemblymember Glick (A6353-A).
Volunteer Event with Plastic Free
Join us for a Sure We Can Volunteer day hosted along side Plastic Free!
Volunteer Day
Join us for a volunteer day to learn from Sure We Can staff and community members about the day-to-day work of bottle and can collecting and sorting. Volunteers will participate in sorting materials that will then be directly recycled! No particular special skills are required, just a willingness to get a little dirty and to help us dig through the valuable materials that others throw away!
Age requirements: All Ages! 14+ can join w/o guardian. Under 14 years guardian required.
Film Screening at Patagonia
Join us at Patagonia Soho for a film screening and discussion of The Fourth Kingdom / El Cuatro Reino, a documentary film following community members of Sure We Can.
Through careful, compassionate filmmaking and a transcendental approach to urban imagery, El Cuarto Reino (The Fourth Kingdom) explores the inner and outer lives of those who, in the face of the intense hardship and alienation imposed on them as cultural outsiders--undocumented, disabled, forgotten, or otherwise excluded--find their own way toward belonging and community among the material detritus of the 21st century.
Join us after the film for drinks and a discussion panel
Volunteer Day
Join us for a volunteer day to learn from Sure We Can staff and community members about the day-to-day work of bottle and can collecting and sorting. Volunteers will participate in sorting materials that will then be directly recycled! No particular special skills are required, just a willingness to get a little dirty and to help us dig through the valuable materials that others throw away!
Age requirements: All Ages! 14+ can join w/o guardian. Under 14 years guardian required.
NYS Capital Advocacy day for the Bigger Better Bottle Bill
Please join the New York is NOT Disposable Coalition to meet with your state representatives in Albany to help get two critical bills -- the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S4246-b/A5322-b) and the Bigger Better Bottle Bill (S237/A6353) -- to reduce single-use plastics and increase reuse, refill and recycling over the finish line this spring!
Love Your Mother - Benefit Concert & Party
Reschedule from April 18: An evening of music & fun benefitting Sure We Can & Collective Focus!
Live music from bands Evolfo and Jairito y La Onda, and DJs DJ Kim the Beat and Tre D'Ambrocia, as well as local vendors Luxury Vandal, Unicorn Dynasty, Crystal Hart, and Warrior Healing Market.
Earth Day
Join us for a day of fun and stewardship to celebrate our planet!
Schedule of activities:
11-1 Street Clean up
1-2 Lunch
2-4 Garden planting, upcyling, & recycle sorting
4-5 Bottle Bill info session & call to action
❕POSTPONED❕ LOVE YOUR MOTHER - Earth Day Benefit Concert
❕POSTPONED due to weather. Stay tuned for reschedule date ❕
Brooklyn Org Annual Volunteer Day
Join Brooklyn Org to learn from Sure We Can staff and community members about the day-to-day work of bottle and can collecting and sorting. Volunteers will participate in sorting materials that will then be directly recycled! No particular special skills are required, just a willingness to get a little dirty and to help us dig through the valuable materials that others throw away!
Age requirements: All Ages! 14+ can join w/o guardian. Under 14 years guardian required.
Location: Sure We Can, 219 McKibbin St, Brooklyn, NY 11206
Sure We Can Volunteer Day
Join us for a volunteer day to learn from Sure We Can staff and community members about the day-to-day work of bottle and can collecting and sorting. Volunteers will participate in sorting materials that will then be directly recycled! No particular special skills are required, just a willingness to get a little dirty and to help us dig through the valuable materials that others throw away!
Age requirements: All Ages! 14+ can join w/o guardian. Under 14 years guardian required.
Sign up on VolunteerMatch or email sage@surewecan.org
Global Recycling Day
♻️ Today is Global Recycling Day! 🌎
Did you know that the deposit return system is the most effective recycling program we have in NY state? This system and the canners that work within it are so valuable for increasing recycling, reducing litter, and combatting climate change!
In honor of this day let's tell our representatives that modernization of the Bottle Bill is long, long overdue! Contact NYS Assembly Speaker Carl E. Heastie (518-455-3791, speaker@nyassembly.gov) and NYS Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (518-455-2585, scousins@nysenate.gov)
Find the call/email script & more resources at bit.ly/swc-bottle-bill
