Save Composting in NYC!

Save Our Compost NYC’s letter-writing campaign had 2,500 individuals submit letters in support of composting!!

With your support, our campaign was able to:

• Continue New York City government funding for Community Composting and DSNY Zero Waste partner programs for $7 million supporting community composting work.  It funds composting and composting education at 
  • GrowNYC
  • Big Reuse
  • Queens Botanical Gardens
  • NY Botanical Gardens
  • Lower East Side Ecology Center
  • Earth Matters
  • Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
  • Snug Harbor
• Help encourage city government to expand composting to Queens.  DSNY’s curbside composting pickup began in Queens Monday, October 3, 2022.  
• Provide support for City Council to introduce legislation to provide residential composting for all of NYC.

City councilmembers Sandy Nurse, Shahana Hanif, and Keith Powers have support to override a possible veto from Adams on their “Zero Waste Legislative Package.” The package includes:

• Councilmember Hanif’s Universal Residential Curbside Composting bill requiring mandatory composting in all residential buildings and requiring equal education and support from the DSNY.
• Majority Leader Powers’ Community Organics and Recycling Empowerment (CORE) Act
• Solid Waste Committee Chair Nurse’s bill requiring the DSNY to report progress and eventually reach New York City’s Zero Waste Goals by 2030

The Zero Waste Legislative Package has the support of City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams as well as several other council members and leaders within city government.