@SureWeCanNYC

Recycling Center + Community Space + Sustainability Hub.

 Brooklyn, NY
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March Forth on March 4th! — Sure We Can

Dear friend, Another year, another legislative session. While most of the state is still freezing under layers of ice, Albany is heating up! We’re in the midst of state budget negotiations–billions...

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THANK YOU! With your support, we surpassed our goal of raising $30k in our 2025 fundraiser ⭐️ Thank you for supporting Sure We Can's community-sensitive redemption service at a time when canners need it more than ever ❤️
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Happy New Year from Sure We Can! 🎇surewecan.org/newsletter/202…

Onward and Upward — Sure We Can

Dear friend, The year is drawing to a close, as is your opportunity to contribute to Sure We Can’s efforts to raise $30,000 before 2025 is over! We have less than $4000 left to raise!! In 2025 we...

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NYC is the city that never sleeps, with all kinds of activity happening around the clock. This includes the canners who work day & night keeping our city clean 📷 Support the only community sensitive redemption center serving canners 📷 bit.ly.support/swc Photo: Anna Fawcus
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Making Meaning — Sure We Can

Dear friend, I hope you are spending this holiday season warm and safe. I hope, if you can, you’re resting. After a tough year, we’ve earned it! The winter holidays make me reflect on my secular...

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🎄❄️Happy holidays from the Sure We Can community! Wishing everyone a very merry holiday season and a happy and healthy New Year!
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Our Essential Services! Two Weeks Left to Help! — Sure We Can

Dear friend, Since I last wrote to you, we’ve made some great strides in our effort to raise $30,000 before the end of the year to maintain our staffing and programs in 2026 . We’re less than $6000...

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When you finish a drink and toss your bottle or can, you may not think about where it goes next. In New York, there's a great chance a canner will collect it along their route, and sort it among hundreds of other bottles and cans, and bring it to a place like Sure We Can.
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Thousands of canners in New York City are the backbone of this labor intensive system, ensuring our bottles and cans recycled. Help us support these vital yet marginalized workers today bit.ly/supportswc
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Photo by Anna Fawcus
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Pawel shares how he got into canning and found Sure We Can. Help us raise $30k this year so we can keep supporting canners in 2026 💚 Donate at bit.ly/supportswc
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2 weeks left to help us reach our goal 💚
Sure We Can@SureWeCanNYC14 Nov 2025
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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If Not Us, Then Who? — Sure We Can

Dear friend, We are almost halfway to meeting our goal to raise $30,000 before the end of the year in order to sustain staffing and programs in the coming year. Thank you so much to those who’ve...

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Sure We Can retweeted
Kristin Shevis@SheviNY22 Apr 2025
Thank you #canners for helping NYC and the environment, and @DeborahJGlick and @RachelMayNY for sponsoring the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. Let's pass it! @PlasticsBeyond citylimits.org/the-bottle-bi…

‘The Bottle Bill Is Just the Beginning’: How Canners Can Make a Cleaner, Better City - City Limits

Rixaru X spoke to City Limits about the challenges New York City canners face and how the Bigger Better Bottle bill would improve their lives—and the city’s livability. 

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Did you know there’s an invisible workforce of up to 15,000 people keeping NYC clean every single day? 🏙♻️ They are known as "canners," and they form a massive underground economy that processes millions of redeemable bottles and cans each year.🥫
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New York isn't the only place working towards a bottle bill! Legislators and advocates in Washington D.C. are advancing a bill that would include a dime deposit for bottled and canned beverages sold there ♻️⭐️ streetsensemedia.org/article…

A deposit-based bottle recycling program could offer homeless communities an opportunity to make a...

Councilmember Brianne Nadeau sees a proposed bottle bill as an income opportunity for low-income residents.

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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 support NYC canners. 💚🔗 bit.ly/supportswc
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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
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🗞 New Newsletter! 🗞 surewecan.org/newsletter/202…

Freezin for a Reason — Sure We Can

Dear friend, My first job in New York City was canvassing for Planned Parenthood, between November of 2012 and April of 2013. I spent my first winter in NYC asking strangers on the street to support...

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