MSWAB member Melissa Iachan co-wrote an Op-Ed in CityLimits arguing that the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation's decision to evict two community composting operations represents a blow to the NYC's Climate Goals.
Although organic waste represents more than a third of the city’s waste stream and Mayor de Blasio has a “Zero Waste to landfills” goal, the non-profit Lower East Side Ecology Center and Big Reuse composting programs are facing imminent eviction from Parks’ land in East River Park.
Read the article here.