((PKG))  ZERO WASTE LIVING  
((Banner:  Zero Waste)) 
((Reporter:  Nina Vishneva)) 
((Camera:  Alexander Barash, Vladimir Badikov))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  New York City, New York))    
 
((Popup Banner:  New York City is leading a campaign to 
contribute zero waste to landfills by 2030)) 
((NATS)) 
((Nicole Grossberg, Co-Founder, Zero Waste NYC 
Workshop Series))   
Start with small things: changing over your water bottle to 
reusable, then do maybe your coffee cup, then work on 
weaning yourself off paper towels.  And there’s different 
ways, you know.  Then maybe you want to start buying local 
food and eating less meat.  I mean, don't think that you have 
to do everything at one time, to take one step at a time and 
then it's not as insurmountable or scary.   
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((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance)) 
This is our semi-annual textile drive.  So, we run two a year. 
We also run two e-waste drives, so electronic waste drives, 
four drives a year.  And this one, for this one we partner with 
Wearable Collections to properly recycle all of the unwanted 
textiles so that they don't wind up in the waste stream.   
The goal is that 50 percent of it will be reused, so it will be 
upcycled and worn again either here in the United States or 
in other countries where it may be needed.   
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((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s 
Strongest))
It's one of our zero waste workshops.  It's part of a new 
series that we're partnering with as you met Nicole and 
Sandra who lead the New York City Zero Waste Meetup. 
And it's basically a workshop for everyday New Yorkers to 
come and learn how they can live a more, as we call it, zero 
waste but a lifestyle in which they're throwing fewer things 
into landfill and doing more recycling, composting and 
actually being mindful of the products they purchase so that 
they can purchase items that have a beneficial reuse.   
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((Joann Lee, Tourist))  
Hi, people.  I don't need my coat.  Is this OK to leave it here 
with you people?  Thank you very much!  I'm from Australia 
and I've had the coat for too long.  It's summer over there. 
We're already swimming.  
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((Erica Sweany, Actress))  
Everybody brings in all of the clothes that they’re not using 
anymore, a lot of their partners' clothes, kids' clothes.  And 
we all trade and switch and people end up with new items 
and then everything else gets donated.  
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((Molly Barverman, Director, Broadway Green Alliance)) 
We've had a huge number of people coming from all 
different Broadway shows and from the neighborhood and 
offices in the community to bring their textiles.  So, we've 
had people coming from Wicked, from Aladdin, from Harry 
Potter.   
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((Julie Raskin, Director, Foundation for New York’s 
Strongest)) 
I think the more we bring the public into our work and the 
more efficient it will be, the more kind of amicable that 
relationship and just the larger strides we can make.  You 
know, the more people that participate in our compost and 
recycling, that builds on itself.  We can expand the program.  
We can start to do kind of the next big thing. 
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