The  City  of  New  York’s  Investment  in  Community  Composting

Jeremy  Teperman    |    Project  CoordinatorNYC  Compost  Project  hosted  by  Queens  Botanical  Garden

COMPOST2016  USCC  Conference:  Soils  for  a  Greener  WorldTuesday,  January  26th,  2016

– 3  million  households– 8.3  million  residents– thousands of  institutions– 250  thousand  businesses– 150 different  languages

More  than:

One  New  YorkNYC  will  send  zero  waste  to  landfills  by  2030

DSNY  Organics  StrategyDSNY  believes  that  a  strong  and  successful  organic  waste  management  strategy  for  NYC  operates  at  three  levels:

• Citywide

• Community

• Home

NYC  Compost  Project

Our  Mission:  The  NYC  Compost  Project  works  to  rebuild  NYC’s  soils  by  providing  New  Yorkers  with  the  knowledge,  skills,  and  opportunities  they  need  to  produce  and  

use  compost  locally.  

Thank  you!

Jeremy  Teperman    |    Project  CoordinatorNYC  Compost  Project  hosted  by  Queens  Botanical  Garden

jteperman@queensbotanical.org

queensbotanical.orgnyc.gov/compostproject