To help prevent the eviction of Big Reuse and the Lower East Side Ecology Center's community composting sites, please submit written testimony in advance of tomorrow's Council hearing!
- Click here to submit your written testimony
- Select "I only want to submit an online testimony"
- Select hearing: Friday, Dec 18 @ 11am
- Subject: Save Big Reuse & Lower East Side Ecology Center’s Community Compost Sites
- Upload your testimony
- Hit send!
The testimony can be as short as a few sentences. If you're not sure what to say, here are tips from NRDC:
Start with the personal: Do you compost? Have you been finding it hard to compost since the pandemic started? Do you use one of these two composting organizations’ services to compost your organics?
Next, outline why composting is important to you and for the environment. You can read more about composting and its benefits in NRDC’s guide.
And don’t forget: Composting is an environmental justice issue too. When food waste is not composted, it is often sent to incinerators located primarily in low-income communities and communities of color and burned with trash and fossil fuels. This releases particulates and toxic chemicals into local communities.
Finally, sustainably disposing of organics is critical to achieving New York City’s ambitious climate and zero waste goals. Dumping food waste into landfills or incinerators instead of composting them adds to air pollution, accelerates the climate crisis, and will mean that the people who provide these critical composting services will lose their jobs.