connecting the city to the soil

SO, HERE’S THE DEAL:

As the fragility of our environment seeps into everyday consciousness, urbanites are increasingly becoming aware of buzz-words like “local” and “sustainable” and (ahem!) “compostable.” For busy New Yorkers to participate, this means keeping rotting food scraps in tiny kitchens until finding the time to hand-deliver them to community drop-off centers, which, unfortunately, have infrequent hours of operation. OR, just sending them to the landfill with the local hauler. For all but the dedicated few, composting eventually takes a back seat. We’d like to change that!

CHECK IT OUT:

WHO WE ARE:

We are New York Compost.

We want to make composting easily accessible for New York City. Our goal is to connect the city to the soil via a network of compost collection tricycles and decentralized community-scale compost sites.

LEARN MORE:

If you’d like to know more or are interested in contributing, collaborating, or using our services, feel free to get in touch.

Our phone number is (347) 829-6922

Our email is info@newyorkcompost.com

Things can get busy over here, but we’ll do our best to get in touch promptly.

CURRENT PROJECT:

We’ve recently been approached by Glad® to help get the word out about their compostable bags - made with approximately 40% vegetable-based materials so they’ll disintegrate at municipal compost facilities. In a joint effort to connect the city to the soil, NYCompost is hitting the streets with two Glad®-wrapped freight trikes.

Additionally, if you tweet "Compost Pickup" to @Glad2Wasteless, you can enter for a chance to win a free NY Compost Pickup.

To make this project possible, we’re working with IESI®, using their existing composting infrastructure to transport the compostables that we pick up in the city to a municipal composting facility outside the city.