For Earth Day: A New Effort in Composting
Posted in Uncategorized on April 22nd, 2010 by Plant Talk – 1 CommentYou Are Part of the Solution in the Garden’s Cafe Waste Program
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Daniel Avery is Sustainability and Climate Change Program Manager at The New York Botanical Garden. |
Every day New York City’s households and not-for-profits that receive waste handling services from the City of New York such as The New York Botanical Garden generate about 12,000 tons of garbage and recyclables that must be hauled away by trucks to distant landfills and incinerators. The city’s businesses contribute an additional 10 million tons per year of garbage, recyclables, construction waste, and fill material.
Of the 11,500 tons per day of so-called municipal waste, about 36 percent is recyclable material as designated under the city’s current recycling program. That means that, even if every accepted item was recycled, there would still be almost 7,360 tons of waste a day to get rid of. read more »