The Western Queens Compost Initiative is committed to recycling residential food waste from our community into nutrient-rich compost.
Since 2008, we have salvaged food from soup kitchens, CSA's, bike tours, and hundreds of households. This year, in addition to the bike tours, we are going to collect waste from the CSA's and farmers markets in the Astoria and Long Island City every week, reaching over 1,000 households.
These sources of food waste can help create nutrient-rich compost, which will be used to grow plants and vegetables in green spaces and gardens.
With more food being thrown away in NYC than ever before, and with an increasing need for fresh, local, healthy food, composting now more than ever can have significant impacts on health, soil, food, community, and the environment.
We can keep trash from being trucked out, deposited in landfills, and creating toxic wastewater runoffs and greenhouse gases. Help us make that difference.
| Compost Collection in NYCDid you know Brooklyn and Manhattan both have compost collection sites open to the public for residential food waste? Patrons of the Union Square farmers market and (as of this year) Inwood market in Mahattan, as well as the the Fort Greene and Williamsburg markets in Brooklyn can bring their kitchen scraps to be composted. Read more here, here, here, and here.
Give Green, Get GreenThere are many ways to give to the Western Queens Compost Initiative. We accept the type of green that can be composted, but we also need the type that that can be used to buy composting tools and equipment with.
While some of our funding is coming from small grants and fundraisers, we are depending on most of it to come from the community and concerned people like you.
We have two campaigns you can pledge support through (click on the icons to find out more). What you stand to get in return is a greener NYC (and some cool rewards). |
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