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The
NYC Compost Project was created by the New
York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) in 1993 to provide compost
outreach and education to City residents and businesses. Funded and
managed through the Department of Sanitation’s Bureau
of Waste Prevention, Reuse and Recycling, the NYC
Compost Project
programs are carried out by Department-funded staff at the City’s
Botanical Gardens and the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
The NYC Compost Project develops and conducts many innovative programs to encourage residential and institutional composting. Each NYC Compost Project location hosts a home composting demonstration site and a composting telephone helpline, and offers a variety of compost-related workshops and classes for residents, teachers, school groups, groundskeepers, landscapers, and other interested parties. NYC Compost personnel and volunteers regularly disseminate composting and recycling information at thousands of community events, and offer compost bins for sale at discount to NYC residents, subsidized by DSNY.
Learn
about these NYC Compost Project programs:
composting workshops
compost
givebacks: free compost and discounted compost bin sales
"leave it on the lawn": putting grass clippings
to work
master composter certificate course
nyc teacher "wormshops": worm composting
for the classroom
landscaper training
Learn about these other DSNY composting programs:
turning leaf & yard waste
into compost
christmas tree composting
rikers island food waste composting facility
pilot projects & studies
contact the nyc compost project
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