First in a series of blogs on the importance of composting in New York City.
The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (Parks Department) is planning to evict a nationally recognized community composting operation from its longtime home under the 59th Street bridge in Long Island City. The agency’s rationale: It needs the site for the parking of Parks Department motor vehicles.
The imminent move to bulldoze the Big Reuse compost processing operation is unwarranted, inexplicable, and inconsistent with long-standing city policy. The department recently notified the not-for-profit organization that it must vacate its site by June 30.
The eviction runs counter to city pronouncements, plans, and laws aimed at boosting the composting of discarded organic waste as a way of reducing the city’s global warming emissions, producing valuable finished compost, and cutting the…