Posts Tagged composting

Compost Collection Expanded Across the City!

March 31, 2011
Compost Collection Expanded Across the City!

Most New Yorkers don’t know how many states our waste gets outsourced to.  In my experience, when they learn that our daily production of 24 million tons of garbage goes to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, and of course upstate New York, they pause and think that is certainly not the best news. Some go [...]

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Sparking Change in the NYC Food System

March 4, 2010
Sparking Change in the NYC Food System

Just a few weeks ago the Borough President of Manhattan, Scott Stringer, released a remarkable policy report designed to “spark systemic change in New York’s regional food system.”  The document, titled FoodNYC: A Blueprint for a Sustainable Food System, contains a respectably comprehensive range of proposals which identify keys points of intervention for our city.  [...]

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