Hi New Yorkers – We need your voice. Sign our petition. Urge the Mayor to stop the elimination of your community compost programs!
What’s new: Mayor Adams announced budget cuts that will end community composting programs across the city, including GrowNYC’s and we need your support! Please SIGN HERE asking Mayor Adams to restore this funding and urge your New York City Council to advocate for this important programming.
Why it matters: Community composting organizations, including GrowNYC, Big Reuse, LES Ecology Center, Earth Matter NY, New York Botanical Garden, Queens Botanical Garden, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden collectively:
Divert more than 8.3 million pounds of organic waste from landfills each year.
Produce and distribute hundreds of thousands of pounds of compost to over 325 community groups, parks, 85 street tree care events, and thousands of individuals each year.
Provide compost outreach and education to over 600,000 New Yorkers annually
Operate 6 community composting sites - providing the most sustainable and equitable form of organics waste management.
The bottom line: There cannot be a successful Curbside Composting program in New York City without a strong outreach and community composting network to educate New Yorkers.
Please sign our petition. When you do, an email with our letter will be sent to the Mayor demanding him to halt the elimination of community compost programs!
GrowNYC’s Impact 
GrowNYC Zero Waste numbers 
Let’s take a look at what we accomplished last year:
Food Scraps: We provided New Yorkers with a staggering 2,602 opportunities to drop off food scraps. Through the collective efforts of 409,151 donors, we diverted an astounding 2,574,601 pounds of food scraps from disposal. That's an average of 6.29 pounds per donor!
Stop 'N' Swap: We conducted 34 Stop 'N' Swap events across various community districts in the 5 boroughs. These events brought together 6,060 passionate attendees, and we diverted a total of 67,163 pounds of items from disposal through reuse.
Textile Recycling: Provided participants with 401 drop-off opportunities. Together, we collected a total of 341,910 pounds of textiles from 29,928 donors with the help of Wearable Collections. That's an average of 11.42 lbs. per donor!
The big picture: Our collective efforts led to a staggering total waste diversion of 2,983,674 pounds!
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