{"id":22092,"date":"2024-06-05T00:12:19","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T04:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/?p=22092"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:40:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:40:29","slug":"brooklyn-recycling-hub-sure-we-can-advocates-for-increased-nyc-can-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/brooklyn-recycling-hub-sure-we-can-advocates-for-increased-nyc-can-deposit\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Recycling Hub &#8216;Sure We Can&#8217; Advocates for Increased NYC Can Deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bkreader.com\/writers\/katey%20st.%20john\">Katey St. John<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tucked into a quiet block of Bushwick, the recycling facility nonprofit\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.surewecan.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sure We Can<\/a>\u00a0provides canners\u2014people who redeem cans and bottles as a means of self-employment\u2014a space to store their goods, sort their cans and bottles, and collect their deposits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget-dfp gam widget-inject widget-inject-centre empower-local widget-injected\" data-id=\"834050\" data-widget=\"41\" data-per=\"10\" data-min=\"\" data-path=\"\/21842630800\/NET_Empower_Stories\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-targeting=\"[]\" data-dim-m=\"[1,1]\" data-dim-t=\"[1,1]\" data-dim-d=\"[1,1]\" data-size=\"[1,1]\">\n<div class=\"teads-inread sm-screen\">\n<p>\u201cThe systems that allow canning to exist are impressive,\u201d said Ryan Castalia, the executive director of Sure We Can. \u201cThey create a mechanism for people who experience intense barriers to traditional employment to still be able to offer their labor power to communities and earn value from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As trash continues to grow around the five boroughs, the work of canners becomes necessary in waste management. Through their collecting and sorting, canners divert material away from landfills and into recycling centers. In 2023 alone, canners redeemed over\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5647b691e4b0524134ec6b8c\/t\/65e1f1c13bbe880ffe2d9be9\/1709306311996\/REPORT_WEB+%281%29.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\">12 million containers<\/a>\u00a0just at Sure We Can\u2019s facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are essentially green workers, essential workers, who are performing incredible service for the community in terms of litter reduction,\u201d said Ryan Castalia, the executive director of Sure We Can. \u201cIt just doesn&#8217;t get the recognition it deserves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law which enables this recycling, called the Returnable Container Law, originally passed in 1982 in New York State. The bill gives people a five-cent incentive to return their used bottles and cans. Just as the city&#8217;s waste management system relies on this law to alleviate, canners rely on this law as a means for self-employment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite rising costs of living, that five-cent deposit hasn\u2019t changed since the law\u2019s inception. Now, activists are\u00a0<a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nextcity.org\/urbanist-news\/new-yorks-can-collectors-say-its-time-for-their-first-raise-in-40-years\" rel=\"noopener\">fighting to increase it<\/a>\u00a0to ten cents. Sure We Can also advocates for the addition of more containers into the law, which currently only covers beer, carbonated beverages, water, and wine containers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottle bill allows [canners] to not only clean up those communities that are oversaturated with litter and pollution, but also to direct economic activity into them through their earnings,\u201d Castalia said. \u201cIn that way, the bottle bill actually is a really elegant mechanism for people to access work, for people to improve their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Katey St. John Tucked into a quiet block of Bushwick, the recycling facility nonprofit\u00a0Sure We Can\u00a0provides canners\u2014people who redeem cans and bottles as a means of self-employment\u2014a space to store their goods, sort their cans and bottles, and collect their deposits. \u201cThe systems that allow canning to exist are impressive,\u201d said Ryan Castalia, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5904,"featured_media":22094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,2864],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whats-buzzin","category-general-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Brooklyn Recycling Hub &#039;Sure We Can&#039; 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