QUESTION
How will the Department of Sanitation New York (DSNY) balance space intensity and benefits of local composting?
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The Department of Sanitation New York (DSNY) aims to balance composting's spatial demands with its local benefits through a mix of traditional composting and anaerobic digestion.
- DSNY is addressing the challenge of balancing space use, borough equity, and environmental justice.
- The focus is on ensuring equitable participation and local processing capacity across all city areas.
- A competitive sealed bid process is underway to address these issues.
- The goal is to implement the largest and easiest herbicide composting program citywide.
Shaun Abreu
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The composting can be space intensive and New York City And in New York City, space is highly valued.
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However, keeping composting activities within the city allows us to more fully enjoy its economic and social benefits.
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How will DSNY balance these contrasting interests in developing its composting infrastructure?
Joshua Goodman
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Yeah.
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It's really gets it exactly why we think that there is a role for both composting and anaerobic digestion in the future of processing of compostable material.
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The space aspect, the borough equity aspect, the environmental justice aspect of where the trucks go.
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That's sort of the issue that we're undertaking right now.
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Not sort of that is the issue that we're undertaking right now with the competitive sealed bid.
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It's trying to balance these.
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So that every part of the city gets to participate in the largest and easiest herbicide composting program ever, and also so that every part of the city feels an equal share of the local processing capacity in their neighborhood.
