elizabeth-cooper t1_j5pbz4c wrote
What do you do with the compost?
How do you ensure that it's not contaminated?
JunahCg t1_j5qa4l2 wrote
Yeah very curious too. I've pulled styrofoam other plastic bullshit out of brown bins before dumping my own. Feels werid someone would care enoguh to use the bins, but not enough to take out even the large and obvious plastic.
elizabeth-cooper t1_j5qdi6x wrote
Found this.
>DSNY sends materials to compost facilities in the region. Every one of these facilities is equipped with equipment to remove plastic liners, packaging, and service ware, from food scraps and yard waste before they are composted or digested.
>Food scraps and yard waste from residents and schools on Staten Island are composted at DSNY’s Staten Island Compost Facility. Once finished, the compost is sold to landscapers and also used for greening projects in neighborhoods and parks throughout NYC.
>Some of the food scraps are turned into clean, renewable energy at the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant.
sickbabe t1_j5rtkrf wrote
I did an internship at the lower east side ecology center a few years ago, at the time I believe they were run out of every boroughs' botanic garden and the east river park in manhattan, and through those organizations you could get your own composted soil, but otherwise we used them to fill in tree pits when we were planting for spring. would be interested to know if/how the LESEC piles got relocated with the park under renovation.
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