Today is NYC's Executive Budget Hearing, which means it's our chance to have our voices heard.

Submit testimony to let our elected officials know that composting is essential to our city and environment, and we must fund the nonprofits GrowNYC and the NYC Compost Project (Earth Matter, LES Ecology Center, Big Reuse, and the New York Botanical Gardens).

Please submit testimony in all three ways:

• Submit written testimony via email to financetestimony@council.nyc.gov
• Submit written testimony via the Council's website at council.nyc.gov/testify
• Submit testimony directly to the Office of Management and Budget via https://www1.nyc.gov/site/omb/contact/send-a-message-to-budget-director.page

Here is a template for the letter. Feel free to customize, and share why composting is important to you personally. 

In addition, here's a fact sheet from the community composting nonprofits listing what's at stake. 

Together, let's #SaveOurCompost