Major NYC compost operation, reeling from budget cuts, to be booted from Queens site
Organizers of one of the city’s largest composting sites, which is already reeling from Mayor Eric Adams' budget cuts, said the city is kicking them out of a space beneath the Queensboro Bridge to make way for a new park.
“They’re sort of evicting us to move their equipment they have… into our space,” said Justin Green, Big Reuse's executive director. “Parks recognizes the importance of composting and other sustainability efforts that are facilitated by organizations in the city like Big Reuse, and we will continue to assist these efforts by providing a free space for Big Reuse to use through June,” said Kelsey Jean-Baptiste, a parks department spokesperson.
Adams implemented deep budget cuts to composting in the last year that disrupted the activist communities dedicated to repurposing organic waste. The city announced $3 million in cuts to the composting program in November, but then withdrew some of those cuts in January. The rollout of curbside compost pickup in Staten Island and the Bronx was also
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