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NYC budget cuts will close some composting programs
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- Title
- Less Compost, More Methane Gas and Landfill Loom in Proposed Budget Cuts
- Authors
- Samantha Maldonado
- Published
- Nov 28 2023
- Word count
- 1211 words
This is a local source for NYC where composting is being rolled out but the citys composting is different from community composting as most of the city food waste is made into biofuels.
Bit of a related tangent from the specific point of the article, but it really astounds me how limited municipal organic collection programs seem to be in the US (at least, from my limited experiences). The various canadian cities and areas Ive lived in have had organics collection programs since the 00s.
I dont mean this as a dogpiling us-sucks type of comment, just that at least the places (mainly New England-ish urban centres and reasonably densely populated areas) I frequently visit have no municipal organics program and inefficient, small private companies trying to compensate. Actually, it also seems in my limited experience that even garbage programs aren't always municipally run so I guess organics arent an outlier in that sense.
It kind of leaves me with the question: How the f can we (the general we) expect to make meaningful environmental improvements that require largescale changes when they aren't taken on through a systemic/collective approach?
To end on a positive note, it's good that nyc at least has organics collections and is working to expand collection to more residents, despite all the hurdles and limitations noted in the article.