TESTIMONY
Lonnie Portis, Policy and Advocacy Manager at WE ACT for Environmental Justice, on Strategies for Enhancing Community Composting in NYC
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Lonnie Portis advocates for the development of a comprehensive infrastructure for organic waste management to promote community composting in New York City.
- Portis testifies about the importance of a holistic approach in handling organic waste that includes micro hauling, community composting, and healthy soil creation.
- He emphasizes community composting as foundational to achieving environmental sustainability and building vibrant, resilient communities.
- The testimony highlights community composting's role in supporting green infrastructure like street trees, rain gardens, and parks.
- Portis urges the city council and the Department of Sanitation to collaborate on building infrastructure that prioritizes environmental justice goals.
- He discusses the wider cultural shift in New York City towards better management of organic waste, underscored by the efforts of community composting operators.
Lonnie Portis
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There you go.
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Thank you, customer for chair, Shauna Breo, for holding this hearing.
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I'm just gonna be brief, give abbreviated version of my written testimony.
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But we act is I'm on recorded on the New York City policy and advocacy manager.
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We act for environmental justice.
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We act as a proud of the state of our compost coalition, which is a coalition of New York City organizers working together to support and expand creative composting to uplift environments on in in climate justice.
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We act to urges the city council committee on sanitation.
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It's not at waste management to work closely with the New York City department sanitation to build a holistic robust infrastructure to collect transport and process organic waste that prioritizes micro hauling, community composting, and healthy soil creation.
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The city needs to be strategic and purposeful and purposeful when building out this infrastructure The foundation of that infrastructure should be community composting.
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Community composting maximizes the potential for a diverse and beneficial use uses creating healthy soil to increase the benefits of green infrastructure, which includes street trees, rain garden, and parks, which also reduce flooding and cool, and they also cool their neighborhoods.
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This is not only foster environmental sustainability, but also contributes to the creation of vibrant and healthy and resilient communities.
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New York City is undergoing a cultural shift when it comes to households, buildings, and the city handle organic ways.
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Community composting operators are vital to increase participation in all composting related program through their valued outreach and education effort.
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The city has the opportunity to build infrastructure that to handle and process organic waste that is climate and environmental justice.
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It's our hope that the city Council and his committee work with the S and Y to ensure this with well planned infrastructure that New York City start New York City can make significant progress towards your waste goals and create healthy soil that we can reinvest into our community gardens and parts.
