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Nonprofit partners and students urge Council to sustain community composting and education funding
Summary
Multiple nonprofit speakers, school staff and students told the Council that community composting and school compost education were effective at reducing food waste and asked for continued city council and DSNY support; DSNY said curbside composting baseline funding is $33.4 million.
Community composting organizers, educators and students pressed the City Council during the public testimony portion of the sanitation budget hearing to continue stable funding for community‑based composting and environmental education.
Speakers from Cafeteria Culture, Big Reuse, the House of Good Deeds and the Lower East Side Ecology Center described programs that collect food scraps, run composting sites and…
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