Big Reuse

A few weeks ago, we delivered two pallets of compost to Roosevelt Island in 's District 5 to help boost 's nature and garden initiatives! With , we built the 1st Sugi Miyawaki Method Pocket Forest (a reforestation method particularly useful in urban areas as it creates dense forests in small spaces) in New York alongside Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation. This compost will feed the youth center garden, 's compost giveaway, school and library gardens & urban farms, and toddler group plantings. Love to see it! 🌱💗🌳

🧡💙🧡💙 ORANGE AND BLUE SKIES 🧡💙🧡💙
🛒 Rep your team this Saturday with secondhand gems from our Bushwick location
⏰ Open Daily, 11AM-7PM

Let’s get NYC Community Composting funded! Joinure all our community composting organizations can continue free, accessible, community-based programming on composting and environmental stewardship citywide. Community composting organizations are doing the work, neighborhood by neighborhood.

Join us every Thursday in June to phone bank for community composting and thank New York City Council for funding community composting and making composting accessible, and encourage them to continue this essential funding for FY27! Sign up to make the calls and receive a calendar reminder on your day. By scheduling calls, we can show the breadth of support New Yorkers have for community composting!

We will be holding a check in hour at noon each day for those who want to review instructions or have questions or just want to touch base.

All links in bio!

Get your hands dirty with us at a street tree care event volunteer session! On Sunday, June 14, join us and volunteers from and to help our street trees thrive by removing weeds and litter, aerating soil, and adding a nice layer of mulch. Happy trees make for a much shadier, cleaner, and healthier NY! Thank you to Council Member for supporting tree care in District 6!

We LOVE seeing how our customers use the secondhand items that get at our thrift stores! Bushwick Reuse Center shopper Pree recently threw a tea party, and got these teacups, a three tiered platter, flower decorations, and balloons from our Bushwick location. How do you ? ☕ 🌷

On Saturday, June 13, join us for a very special volunteer tree care event with .farm, the D39 Tree Team, and Field Form! Big Reuse will provide a brief tutorial on street tree care essentials, and the benefits of compost application. Our friends from Field Form will share information about the use of biochar in soil amendment for tree health. Then, we'll fan out in teams to care for trees on Prospect Avenue and neighboring side streets. Thank you for supporting tree care in District 39!

Join us and volunteers from the North Williamsburg Merchant & Bussiness Association in Williamsburg for a street tree care event on June 16! Voluntteers of ALL levels of experience (including first-timers!) are encouraged to join. Thank you to District 34 Council Member for sponsoring tree care 💚💫🌳

Bushwick neighbors: join our friends at Bushwick + Ridgewood Babies Community for a kids clothing swap at next weekend's Troutman Open Streets on Sunday, June 7!

Some recent Spring community composting moments & bin installs! Swipe for a soil friend 💚 We're thrilled to be able to offer community composting programs that reach across multiple neighborhoods in New York City alongside organizations in the NYC Community Compost Network! The Network is able to provide these resources in FY26 thanks to funding from NYC City Council Members.

Visit the link in bio to join us in thanking New York City Council for funding community composting and making composting accessible, and encourage them to continue this essential funding for FY27!

Thank you to the Mayoral Service Recognition Program for this certificate honoring our work in volunteer engagement in 2025! 🎉💚🌳