6M Pounds Of Compost Given To Nyc Gardeners In 2025 In Ongoing Organic Waste Collection Effort

6M Pounds Of Compost Given To Nyc Gardeners In 2025 In Ongoing Organic Waste Collection Effort

6M Pounds Of Compost Given To Nyc Gardeners In 2025 In Ongoing Organic Waste Collection Effort photo composite given as courtesy from Sustainable Generation Food scraps in the Big Apple are now enjoying a second life as free compost for residents and community gardens. It’s all down to an expansion of New York City’s organic waste collection program which started last year. In it, yard waste and food scraps are collected curbside and brought to a central composting facility before being turned into rich fertilizer. Before, organic waste would be transferred to landfills where it would decompose and produce copious clouds of methane, a short-lived yet potent greenhouse gas. Now, it’s brought to a facility where natural microbes consume it and the methane it produces in the process of breaking it all down into fertilizer. Under massive white tarps at the Staten Island Compost Facility, everything from dead tree stumps to apple cores to greasy pizza boxes are consumed. Temperatures under the t…