Hope you all can make it! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Did you throw a party this weekend? Did you make crudité or a vegetable tray? If you bought too many carrots and they went bad, put them in your brown bin!

NYC Sanitation Save Our Compost NYC While I love this program I think it's premature to share this tweet when it's not available in all boroughs and neighborhoods yet. In Bayside our collection has not resumed (I'm aware the pilot is returning in October) so anything in brown bins is collected as trash 😞

Up early with New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) Make the Road NY 🦋 and Council Members cmjuliewon.bsky.social Council Member Shahana Hanif and @crystalrhudson to welcome asylum seekers who have been cruelly bussed to NYC from TX. Today a woman with a 6 day old baby arrived after a 3 day bus journey.

Give your unused items a second life! Get rid of your unwanted items and search for goodies at GrowNYC Stop ‘N’ Swap events. Join us this weekend in the Bronx! ✨Saturday, August 27 Baychester Community Center 1220 E 229th Street, Edenwald, Bronx 12 PM - 3 PM See you soon!

Looking forward to this!

Get rid of your solvents, automotive, flammables and electronics safely. Mark your calendars-- Fall 2022 SAFE Disposal Events are coming soon! Find information about harmful product disposal, Special Waste Drop-off locations, & upcoming SAFE events here: nyc.gov/safedisposal

Excellent thread on what is recyclable and what isn’t. Are you making any of these recycling mistakes? 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Please join us in Queens this Saturday for a free Stop ‘N’ Swap event! In the case of rain, this event will be rescheduled to Saturday, October 29 from 12 PM - 3 PM. Please check grownyc.org/swap for updates.

Anna notes that New York City has a 17% recycling rate, so there’s plenty of room for improvement when it comes to NYC’s trash problem. “There’s a big gap between what we’re doing [17%] and what we can do [68% diversion, by recycling & composting fully] news.yahoo.com/meet-trash-wal…

NYC Sanitation $4 million is an outrageous amount of money to spend on this type of study. For perspective, it is equal to the total amount NYC spent on composting last year. This money could have gone so much further - imagine 40 100k grants to existing NYC waste experts. SMH

And finally, from Department of Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch: "New Yorkers will not have to fear as many rats hiding in late night shadows." Read all about it bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Today was a good step for the rat problem. Please engage in the public comment period! Reducing rats takes many solutions operating at once, which is why the Council’s Rat Action Plan is critical, but the real key is universal *mandatory* curbside organics collection.👇🏽

Time for New York City Council to pass universal #composting bill. “You finally get neighbors buying into this & then you stop it. It’s the wrong approach.”Andrea Scarborough, Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board Org. Committee Save Our Compost NYC Pause in Queens Compost Pilot Leaves Participants in Dumps thecity.nyc/2023/1/6/23543…

Thanks NYC Sanitation for the smart compost bins installed in Harlem in recent weeks. They are great. Digital app is very easy to use! Cc Diana Ayala @kristin4harlem Shaun Abreu

Learn about #NYCStreetTrees and how to care for them on 1/25 from 6 to 8 pm Brooklyn Botanic Garden Garden. We'll cover material including how to become a licensed #CitizenPruner and also go over the newly improved #NYCStreetTreeMap by NYC Parks. Register here: bit.ly/3X56oHH

Community Awareness: Composting Education. CalRecycle NYC Sanitation WM new paltz NYC Parks Save Our Compost NYC Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) Woodside Sunnyside Composting HOTBIN Composting @ILComposts U.S. Composting Infrastructure Coalition Martha Stewart NCCompostingCouncil St. Louis Composting RecycleAcrossAmerica ♻️Learn More Below:⤵️

So happy to see many people are constantly coming to drop off the waste City of New York Mayor Eric Adams Save Our Compost NYC NYC Sanitation New York City Council NYC Mayor's Office