A new composting program in Queens has kept millions of pounds of organic waste out of landfills since it launched in early October, city sanitation officials said Thursday.
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City officials said that’s because the program makes it easier for residents across the borough to compost. Unlike the rest of the city’s composting program — which is only available in— Queens residents don’t have to register for their organic waste to be picked up, as long as they use a bin with a special label.
The amount of compost collected in Queens each week has also soared since the beginning of the program, with 478,000 pounds of compost collected the first week and 1.79 million pounds collected the week of Nov. 12. The sanitation department studied similar composting programs in cities including Seattle and Portland and found their programs had early success by focusing on yard waste, Goodman said. That strategy was also adopted for Queens, which is home to 41% of the city’s street trees and has more residential yards than the rest of the city. With the focus on yard waste, the Queens pickup program will be suspended at the end of December and resume in late March.
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