SAVE OUr COMPOST

WHERE CAN I STILL COMPOST IN NYC?

• Get your compost picked up for a fee:

  • Small business or office? Our Manhattan bike-powered pickup program south of 75th Street might work for you!

  • See our FAQ for microhaulers in other boroughs

  • If your building had NYC brown bin service and you need a larger-scale collection, contact a commercial hauler (hauler list provided by Manhattan SWAB), also see MSWAB’s COVID-19 recycling resources

• Here’s a crowdsourced map of some potential organics drop-off locations in NYC! Always make sure to reach out to a location to make sure they can accommodate your needs on a given day.

START COMPOSTING AT HOME

• Home composting resources

  • NYC Compost Project

  • GrowNYC’s keep composting during COVID-19 page

  • The Institute for Local Self Reliance

  • Cornell Cooperative Extension

• Are you interested in starting your own compost pickup service? Contact us at hello@commongroundcompost.com!

TAKE ACTION

Sign petitions and join letter writing campaigns:

• Change.org Composting is Essential in NYC Petition (do not donate to Change.org, they keep all your money!)

Read the Save Our Compost Coalition’s statement on the results of the fiscal year 2021 New York City budget negotiations:

• Save Our Compost Statement July 1, 2020

Watch the May 5 2020 Virtual Town Hall recording here

Contact your local officials:

• Use this excellent guide, which includes call scripts, draft tweets, and links to imagery pulled together by the #SaveOurCompost coalition!

• Call your City Council person to ask that they continue to support public funding for residential Organics recycling

• Contact Speaker Cory Johnson to thank him for supporting (and encourage him to continue supporting) MANDATORY organics recycling in NYC

• Find your local reps here

STAY UP TO DATE

• Join the Common Ground Compost LLC (our parent company!) newsletter here

• Follow #SaveOurCompost, here on Instagram, here on Twitter, and here on Facebook

• Read the op-ed by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and City Council Member Antonio Reynoso: New York City Must Keep and Expand Organics Collection, It’s an Essential Service

#SaveOurCompost

#SaveOurCompost Coalition Principles (DRAFT):

1. Save Our Compost members support immediate restoration and equitable expansion of community compost and recycling drop-off sites throughout the City.  

2. We support organic waste recycling as a free, public service for all residents of New York City, including legislation of mandatory citywide curbside compost program as soon as possible.

3. To the extent possible, we support the use of local, community-based composting to process NYC organic waste.

4. We support other policies and legislation that will further the City's Zero Waste by 2030 goals and further the development of local green recycling and reuse jobs in both the public and commercial sectors.