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“Policy succeeds or fails in the space between City Hall and neighborhoods. When civic infrastructure is strong, communities know where to get information, can organize around priorities, and maintain trust…

ByNa’ilah Amaru 0Comments

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Jun 2025

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness

As NYC Reaches Budget Deal, Lawmakers Question Lack of Funding for Composting Outreach

The city stopped handing out fines to smaller residential buildings that don’t follow the city’s mandatory composting rules, saying it needs to do more public education on how to participate.…

ByMariana Simões 3Comments

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May 2025

Climate and Environment Featured Land Use and Development Resources

NYC Expands Free Compost Give-Away Sites. Here’s Where to Get Yours This Summer

Find out where to get free composting this summer for your yard, garden or neighborhood tree pits—made from decomposed food scraps and yard waste.

ByMariana Simões 2Comments

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Jan 2025

Climate and Environment Education Government Profiles

The Fight to Keep Community Composting Alive in NYC

Nando Rodriguez from Brotherhood Sister Sol is leading a campaign to bring 1,000 composting sites to every borough. Here’s why he’s doing it.

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Jun 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Bill Seeks to Boost NYC’s Composting Capacity With More Borough-Based Sites

Most of the food scraps and yard waste collected by the city isn’t getting composted. Instead, it’s being turned into fuel to heat people’s homes—and that’s not actually great for…

ByMariana Simões 15Comments

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Jan 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Opinion: Community Composting Produces More Than Just Good Dirt

“Our best hope for a better future lies in communities coming together to care for the land we inhabit. Losing city-funded community composting programs will make that much harder.”

ByGreta Wong 2Comments

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Oct 2023

Climate and Environment Government Transportation

As NYC Rolls Out Mandatory Composting, Will New Yorkers Comply?

Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting New…

ByMariana Simões 11Comments

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Aug 2023

Climate and Environment Government Justice Opinion

Opinion: Delivering on the Promise of a Renewable Rikers

“Every assessment and transfer deadline that passes without action delays the benefits of a transformed Rikers Island for all New Yorkers, especially those in the communities that have been directly…

BySara Imperiale

ByShravanthi Kanekal 0Comments

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Jun 2023

Climate and Environment Government Opinion Politics

Opinion: Environmental Stewardship is a Collective Commitment. Mandatory Composting Will Help Us All Do Our Part

“It’s not just enough to realize it is our hands that have created the ecological disaster our world faces, but it is also our responsibility to address it.”

ByShahana Hanif

ByIbrahim Abdul-Matin 0Comments

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Jun 2023

Climate and Environment Government Housing and Homelessness Politics Transportation

NYC Makes it Mandatory for Residential Buildings to Recycle Food Waste

The City Council on Thursday passed a “groundbreaking” legislative package that forces the city to divert food-based garbage away from landfills and reuse it instead for environmentally friendly purposes like…

ByMariana Simões 8Comments

Opinion: What Mamdani’s Election Reveals About New York’s Civic Capacity