Haunted by old plastic containers stacked in your kitchen cabinets?  Preserve Gimme 5 wants the ghosts of #5’s that most communities in NYC (except the Park Slope Coop.) won’t take. A.k.a your yogurt, butter, hummus, med containers and so on (just peek on the bottom). But now, bring ‘em to the white bins in Whole Foods stores across NYC– we just dropped off our Stonyfield organic yogurt cups (a proud sponsor of the program). From there, Preserve gives your containers new life as U.S. made, 100%  recycable products with safe plastic that you can buy for your digs: everything from apple green colanders, black tooth brushes, and even razors that you can return to be recycled.  If you drop off your Brita filter to WF (or snail mail it to Preserve in Cortland, NY) it’s reincarnated into goods you can buy in the store.  Buying recycled locally sold plastic wares saves tons of energy that’s wasted in making new plastic and saves six feet (or more) of junk in landfills. We see smart people.

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