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Helping New Yorkers Donate
The donateNYC website and mobile app help
New Yorkers nd the nearest place to donate or
nd used goods. Users can search by type and
location, nd hours of operation, locate contact
information, determine if material pick-up
is an option, and more.
The online donateNYC Exchange connects
businesses and nonprots that are looking to donate
or receive used and surplus goods. Nonprots and
businesses get free usable goods, reduce their
waste, and save on storage and disposal costs.
Why Donate and Buy
Used Goods?
New Yorkers throw out nearly six million tons of
waste every year. However, much of this waste
includes items that could be reused instead.
Donating goods to local nonprot organizations
not only supports worthy causes and provides
critical social services, jobs,
and community assistance
to New Yorkers, it
also keeps valuable
materials out
of landlls!
Impact
Our partners have diverted over 40 million pounds of
materials in 2015, while also providing 1.3 million
New Yorkers with social service programs. Materials
collected include:
By donating and reusing goods instead of discarding
them, New Yorkers can greatly reduce waste,
conserve energy and resources, save money, and
help provide New Yorkers with jobs and human
services. donateNYC is an essential part of NYC’s
0X30 initiative, helping New Yorkers reach the goal of
sending zero waste to landlls by 2030.
donateNYC provides residents with resources and
tools to make donating and reusing goods in NYC
easier, and support to local nonprots and businesses
looking to expand and promote their reuse efforts.
Our Partners
donateNYC partners accept and locally distribute
donated items, diverting tens of millions of pounds
of material from the landll every year. These
organizations serve hundreds of thousands of New
Yorkers annually through family services, housing/
sheltering, healthcare, workforce development, and
food bank programs. Our partners also help NYC
meet its Zero Waste goals by providing veriable data
needed to assess the City’s 0X30 progress.
donateNYC partners include:
• thrift stores
• clothing banks
• social service providers
• creative arts programs
• community-based reuse
programs
Some of what our
Partners kept out
of landlls:
3,269,457 items of clothing
1,077,980 pieces of furniture
& home furnishings
898,885 books & magazines
631,616 accessories
472,116 shoes
369,501 toys & games
and more
17.4 million lbs of textiles
plastic
wood
paper
metals
rubber
glass
6.9 million lbs of
2.7 million lbs of
.15 million lbs of
7.2 million lbs of
3.1 million lbs of
.72 million lbs of
donateNYC, a program of the NYC
Department of Sanitation, helps New Yorkers
give goods, nd goods, and do good, with
tools that make it easy to donate or nd
used and surplus items.