Food Waste Challenge Saves Leftovers from Landfill
The Compost Cycle, photo from the corner farm It might be easy to imagine designating a bottle or a newspaper for recycling or reuse – but food? That is the purview of former Mayor Bloomberg’s Food...
View ArticleCitywide Commercial Organic Diversion
In a bold piece of legislation, New York City will reduce its waste by one third by requiring that, by 2015, restaurants, grocery stores, and other commercial food generators send all of their organic...
View ArticleFarther Afield: Food Unwrapped
From boxed rice to a can of soup, our food comes in packaging that is designed to be disposed of; even produce at some stores is offered in pre-packaged, cling-filmed trays. While it is encouraged that...
View ArticleFarther Afield: Garbage, Big Business in the Big Apple
Garbage is big business in the Big Apple—nearly 2 billion dollars worth of the city’s budget goes to the Department of Sanitation (DOS); and of that: $300 million is spent just disposing of it...
View ArticleFarther Afield: Insect-based feed innovations
Think about bugs; now think about billions of insects concentrated in one facility. Some might get queasy at this thought; however, that is exactly what is happening at a new 90,000 square foot...
View ArticleFarther Afield: Staten Island Leads the Charge in Citywide Composting
The Department of Education and the Department of Sanitation jointly run the “Organics Collection Program,” which diverts organic materials such as food scraps, soiled paper, yard waste out of the...
View ArticleFarther Afield: A visit to the Black Rock Forest Consortium
In mid-December, the Freshkills Park Development Team took a trip to visit the Black Rock Forest Consortium in Cornwall, NY. The Consortium manages 3,838 acres of forest with a scientific research...
View ArticleFarther Afield: Seattle Bans Food Waste
Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) has recently added a $1 fine for having more than 10% of a household’s trash composed of food waste. Passed on January 1, 2015, this comes as the next step in Seattle’s...
View ArticleWaste Diversion in New York City
Arturo Romua leads an activity during a walking tour at Freshkills Park. As Freshkills Park develops from the world’s largest landfill into a sustainable urban park, New York City is working towards...
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