Red Dragon Reuse
Cortland Reuse is into our 3rd year of the Red Dragon Reuse event! Reuse
staff and over 50 volunteers invade SUNY campus to help direct all the discarded ‘stuff’ the students usually leave behind in dumpsters into our collection bins and trailers. We have saved literal TONS from our local landfill (think mattress pads, small trash cans, lots of clothes, decorations, rugs, small appliances and more!). We then sort and process it all at Reuse, making it available for a limited time to our community at an affordable price.
Here is some info on last years event :
SUNY Cortland Red Dragon Event
ReUse Bridge:
Africa & Ukraine
We continue to partner with the Cortland Breakfast Rotary Club to send medical equipment abroad to those in need. We accept donations from our community of crutches, walkers, shower chairs, commodes, medical boots and more.
Once our donation bins are full, we reach out to our friends in the Rotary Club, and they pick up these donations and arrange a shipment to a country in need.
ReUse Relief
We are able to support individuals and families transitioning from homelessness to a house or apartment with home goods and furniture, through a generous grant awarded to us from Visions FCU.
With this help, we provide much needed homegoods to people who have a demonstrated need and who would not receive assistance otherwise. We make a difference in their lives at a critical time based on screening done by human services professionals in our community, including DSS and Catholic Charities.
We are able to provide items like a couch, chair, end tables, housewares (dishes, cutlery, kitchen utensils), bedding linens, etc.
Our mission is to continue to give back to the Cortland community, and the Reuse Relief allows us to do just that.