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With the political and social climate turning against the most vulnerable members of our communities, canners need supportive services and safe spaces more than ever. Please consider making a donation to Sure We Can to support NYC's canners. 💚 🔗 bit.ly/supportswc

Earning a living by canning is arduous work. As a community-sensitive redemption center, we offer support that canners can't get anywhere else. Please help us support this community by making a donation 🔗 bit.ly/supportswc #GivingTuesday Photo by Carlos Rivera

🗞 New Newsletter! 🗞 www.surewecan.org/newsletter/2...

Join us at Sure We Can on Tuesday for a volunteer day and open house! Come for a tour of our site, and stay to volunteer if you're able ⭐️ Sign up at bit.ly/swc-dec2

Stand with Sure We Can & NYC canners 💚 Go to 🔗 bit.ly/supportswc to make a donation today www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9_M...

Join us at Sure We Can on Tuesday for a volunteer day and open house! Come for a tour of our site, and stay to volunteer if you're able ⭐️ Sign up at bit.ly/swc-dec2

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We're 10% there! givingtuesday.mightycause.com/story/7hpuhg

Any lawmakers in Iowa who are against our bottle bill and find it "incredibly problematic"... the Iowa City Litter Crew would like to invite you to come pick up litter with us for a couple of months and tell us whether you feel the same. Bottle bills work. Fix them, don't undermine them.

We're disappointed by the anti-bottle bill comments from Kathryn Garcia, Hochul aid & former DSNY Commissioner. What's incredibly problematic is the fact that the Hochul admin can't recognize the value of NY's most effective recycling system. The bill works, & modernization would be a win for NY!

Last month, a team of our canners, staff, & board travelled to Vancouver to exchange with fellow members of the North American Alliance of Wastepickers (NAWPA): Binner's Project, Groundscore Association, & Coop Les Valoristes. A great week full of sharing ideas & building solidarity!

Stand up for NYC's canners and for Sure We Can by donating to help us raise $30,000 before the end of the year! ⭐ ❤️ bit.ly/supportswc

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⭐️ Calling all volunteers! See you Friday 10-12! ♻️ 🔗 bit.ly/swc-oct24

Sunday, October 19th, we're opening our doors for the Open House New York festival! We'll be giving tours from 12-4. Check out our 16,000sqft facility where more over a million cans & bottles are redeemed monthly & get a glimpse into the work of canners. 🔗 www.ohny.org/place/sure-we-can

Thank you so much to our partners Voces Latinas, NAMI, and One Love Community Fridge for being a part of Sure We Can's first Wellness Fair! Special thanks to Hispanic Federation for the support through the Uplift Initiative.

The Alliance of Independent Recyclers (AIR-NYC) is a proud affiliate of the Int'l Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP), a union of orgs repping 460k+ workers across 34 countries! 🌎 Thank you to IAWP president Severino Lima Jr, & Nohra Padilla Herrera of the Colombia Recyclers Association for visiting! ✊

“It’s a classic case of the corporate interests being given a higher value by elected officials than the public interest” NY assembly - listen to the people! We want strong environmental legislation! @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2025/06/27/p...

See you at 5pm today for a quick 30 minute training to get started helping pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill!

Come learn about the Bottle Bill next Wednesday 9/24 at @surewecannyc.bsky.social to mark #ClimateWeekNYC

🌎 We're participating in NYC Climate Week! Join us this Wednesday to learn more about Sure We Can and the campaign to pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill & modernize NY's most effective recycling system! www.climateweeknyc.org/events/recyc...

Join the campaign to pass the #BiggerBetterBottleBill! We’re trying to better understand how thorough the state is in enforcing the existing law. We’ve devised a way for volunteers to help us hold the state accountable! Join us 9/22, 5pm for a training to get started! bit.ly/3VqrsJC

Join us for Sure We Can happy hour part 2! Come tour of our facility in Bushwick where more than 1 million cans & bottles are sorted each month, then happy hour to mingle & learn about our efforts to update NY's Bottle Bill, + wine, beer, lemonade :) 🎟 www.bit.ly/swc-happyhour2

♻️ This Friday, help us sort cans and do some hands on learning about the day to day work of canners! Sign up 🔗 bit.ly/swc-sep19

Our state senator Julia Salazar visited us at Sure We Can yesterday! Thank you Senator Salazar for your support & and for your championship of the Bigger Better Bottle Bill! @salazarsenate.bsky.social

Join us tonight for a tour of our facility in Bushwick where more than 1 million cans & bottles are sorted each month, then happy hour to mingle & learn about our efforts to update NY's Bottle Bill, + wine, beer, lemonade :) Tix 🎟 bit.ly/swc-happyhour See you soon!

⭐️ Thanks to all our volunteers last week! ⭐️

This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 3rd! Tickets still at 🎟 bit.ly/swc-happyhour See you then!

August volunteer day ⭐️ See you there! Sign up 🔗 bit.ly/swc-aug22

📽 The work of a NYC canner. Video by Charles Pfeiffer

Come visit our 15,000 sqft facility in Bushwick where more than 1 million cans and bottles are sorted each month. We'll do a 30-min tour, then a happy hour where you'll have a chance to mingle & learn about our efforts to update NY's Bottle Bill, + wine, beer & lemonade :) 🎟 bit.ly/swc-happyhour

📣 We're hiring! We are seeking a flexible and outgoing individual to support our efforts to more deeply engage canners in Sure We Can's activities and programs. See the full job description at 🔗 bit.ly/engagement-role-swc

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See you tomorrow!

The students of the BK Rot Youth Leaders Program volunteering at Sure We Can as part of their "waste week" ♻️ ⭐️

Thank you to the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators for organizing a group tour of Sure We Can with NY and NJ legislators & staffers!

🧤💚♻️ Join us Friday 7/25 for the next volunteer day at Sure We Can! bit.ly/swc-july25

After our screening of The Waste Commons, a documentary following a community of waste pickers at the city waste dump in Dakar, Senegal, we sat down with Rosalind Fredericks to hear about the making of the film. Thank you to everyone who attended and thank you Rosalind for giving us a deeper look!

Watch the trailer for THE WASTE COMMONS showing at Sure We Can tonight 🎞 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-H...

THE WASTE COMMONS explores the dramatic transformations involved in the impending closure of the city waste dump in Dakar, Senegal, and the lives that hang in the balance. Screening at Sure We Can next Weds, July 9th at 7:30. 🎟 Get your free ticket:

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THE WASTE COMMONS explores the dramatic transformations involved in the impending closure of the city waste dump in Dakar, Senegal, and the lives that hang in the balance. Screening at Sure We Can next Weds, July 9th at 7:30. 🎟 Get your free ticket:

"Marín, 53, is one of thousands of New York City canners—many of them immigrants and people of color—who help keep millions of containers out of landfills. Their work keeps the country’s largest city cleaner, yet their contributions remain largely unrecognized." prismreports.org/2025/06/23/c...

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Only two more chances to see Riven - A documentary play shedding light on the invisibilized world of wastepickers- at Sure We Can! Run because tickets are going fast! 🎟 www.eventbrite.com/e/riven-tick... Photo by Alexia Haick

For the second year in a row, the Democratic supermajority-controlled New York state Assembly failed to vote on the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (A1749 Glick) despite having enough votes to pass. @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social

Did you know Sure We Can organizes volunteer opportunities for corporate groups? You’ll learn from staff & community members about the day-to-day work that canners do, and why this work matters to our whole community. Email [email protected] to get started!

Today is a big day! We are holding our breath and hoping @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social & @nyassemblymajority.bsky.social will put #PeopleOverPlastic and pass the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act! It's on the Assembly agenda to be voted on sometime in the next 24 hours.