After you drop your food or yard scraps in a composting bin, what happens next? elijahwestbrook finds out -- with some help from a special guest:
That so-called waste gets turned into usable material that's broken into two categories: Landscaping and food waste.
The city's Sanitation Department said from 2017 to 2021, it processed more than 104,000 cubic yards of dirt and 882,000 pounds of organic food waste. All of it gets processed through a machine called a"tiger," which separates material that's able to be composted. It's then compacted into walls towering as much as 10 feet, where they sit for weeks if not months at a time.
"I really look at the landfill as New York City's past, and the composting facility that we're in now and it's eminent expansion as the city's future," said Tisch. The city said it's bagging more than 143,000 cubic yards of the soil to schools, community gardens, homes and other places.
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