What are the opening hours?

Monday 7:30am - 5pm Tuesday 7:30am - 5pm Wednesday 7:30am - 5pm Thursday 7:30am - 5pm Friday 7:30am - 5pm Saturday 7:30am - 1am

Sure We Can

Sure We Can is a non-profit recycling center, community space and sustainability hub in Brooklyn.

Sure We Can is a non-profit recycling center, community space and sustainability hub in Brooklyn where canners, students and neighbors come together through recycling, composting, gardening and art. Our mission is to support the local community, particularly the most vulnerable residents, and promote social inclusion, environmental awareness and economic empowerment. For over 9 years, Sure We Can has supported canners, who are people that make a living collecting cans and bottles from the streets and redeeming them for 5 cents each. Today, it has evolved into a community center that promotes a sustainable urban culture and facilitates a circular economy.

10/29/2026

Thank you NYSACC Conference attendees for volunteering with us today!

10/26/2026

We had a great time hosting tours for the 24th annual Open House New York weekend & meeting so many new people! Thanks to everyone who visited us!

10/20/2026

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-aluminum/how-to-recover-more-scrap-metal-us

Advanced sorting technologies and stronger state recycling policies can help recover more scrap metal to meet U.S. aluminum demand, experts say.

10/16/2026

Sign up to volunteer with Sure We Can tomorrow, Sat Oct 17th!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdgLwyRVBDjMx5bDzrg5wXdqwWvU96cX97UvJL2pp87KnF3Hw/viewform?usp=header

09/25/2026

at Sure We Can! Thank you to everyone who came out for our happy hour event this past week to learn more about our work and space!

09/22/2026

We're hosting a Climate Week event tomorrow at 6pm! Join us for a happy hour + tour of our 12,00 square foot recycling center & learn about the role of canners as green workers building our circular economy!

Find out more and register 🔗 bit.ly/swc-climateweek26 (link in bio)

This Climate Week NYC, tour a non-profit redemption center & learn about the role of canners in NYC's waste management!

09/14/2026

⭐️♻️ Sign up to volunteer with Sure We Can on this Saturday, September 19th at 🔗 bit.ly/swc-sept19 (link in bio)

09/10/2026

RECYCLED CULTURE ⚙ ♻️ 9/13
Meet the performers !
(part 2)

Ken Butler is an artist and musician whose Hybrid musical instruments and other works explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon objects, and diverse sounds as function and form collide in the intersection of art and music. The idea of bricolage, essentially using whatever is “at hand”, is at the center of his art. Almost all of his work is repurposing objects from the street.
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Alex Sniderman, aka No Accidents is a spoken word, noise, pop song, and improvisation artist. He makes pieces constructed from sonic refuse such as feedback and noise manipulated through electronics and effects, spoken narratives where the musical elements punctuate and spar with the voice, and improvised works that encompass elements of noise, song, and spoken word.
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Eighty-pound pug is Alex Lozupone's ever evolving public composition project, which now has featured over 100 different members over the past decade.

Musician/Multi-Disciplinary Artivist/Event Curator/Journalist Rose Tang only allows one label, “Tiananman Massacre survivor.” Rose is a descendant of a Mongol rebel who founded the navy to establish the Ming Dynasty.

Madeline at Neighbors found themselves in the Catskills in 2018. Started as an acoustic dialogue project, they quickly transformed into a DlY art collective, focused on improvising and capturing spontaneous sounds of surroundings and constructing new urban and rural soundscapes.
This will be the first time ever this combination of people have collaborated.
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🎟 Tix @ recycledculture.eventbrite.com (link in bio)

09/02/2026

RECYCLED CULTURE ⚙ ♻️ 9/13

Meet the performers !
(part 1)

Brooklyn record producer Martin Bisi curates a large ensemble of musicians making ambient sound art using repurposed objects and materials. In collaboration with Bradford Reed, MV Carbon, Ego Sensation, and Lawry Zilmrah.

Lawry Zilmrah uses custom-built electro-acoustic instruments that double as interactive sculptures. Musician and composer Ego Sensation is one-half of NYC’s avant garde noise duo WHITE HILLS. Her tools include percussion, scrap metal, found objects, electric bass, voice and synthesizers. Bradford Reed is an experimental luthier and member of the avant-garde band King Missile II, & inventor of the Pencilina, a custom string instrument. MV Carbon is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, sculpture, and experimental instrument design.

🎟 Tix @ recycledculture.eventbrite.com (link in bio)

08/26/2026

Come be a part of the recycling process & help us sort bottles & cans this Saturday! ♻️⭐️ Sign up at 🔗 bit.ly/swc-aug29

Address

219 McKibbin Street
New York, NY
11206

Opening Hours

Monday	7:30am - 5pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 5pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 5pm
Thursday	7:30am - 5pm
Friday	7:30am - 5pm
Saturday	7:30am - 1am

Telephone

+13474639257

Website

http://www.surewecan.org/

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