TESTIMONY
Marisa DeDominicis on Supporting and Expanding Community Composting in New York City
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Marisa DeDominicis advocates for increased support and expansion of community composting in New York City.
- DeDominicis requests the passage of Intro 55, Intro 97a and a preconsidered bill by Gail Brewer to support composting in large parks.
- She emphasizes the historical investments by the Department of Sanitation New York (DSNY) in community composting since 1994.
- DeDominicis advocates for a $7,000,000 increase in the FY 2025 budget to restore community composting funding.
- She highlights the need for continued education and processing to increase food scrap diversion rates.
- DeDominicis thanks the City Council for advocating an increase in compost infrastructure and green jobs.
Marisa DeDominicis
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Thank you.
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Good morning.
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Thank you for this opportunity to speak.
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My name is Marissa Domenicus, and I'm a cofounder in ED of Earth Matter, a Campos Facility, low located on Governors Island.
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We request the Council passes intro 55 intro 97a reconsidered intro by council member, Resner, and preconceived resolution by council members, nurse, and Christian.
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In addition, please support the pre considered bill formally intro 1100 dash 2023 by Gail Brewer, which will provide for large parks to compost.
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We request as well the council passive budget that includes 7,000,000 in the 20 5 FY 25 budget to restore the community composting.
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Why?
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Since 1994, DSNY has invested in community composting groups that contributed to putting composting in New Yorkers vocabulary.
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We're thrilled there's mandatory municipal composting.
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We recommend the city and the council and the mayor for passing this mile stone, and we thank decent life for all their work.
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But the success and continuance of the city's investment in composting needs to include and expand our work.
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We need to support of what has been established and also the work of the community composters.
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There's a continued need for education and processing compost in order for our food scrap diversion rates to increase from its current levels, which we believe are very low.
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The small amount of the FY 25 budget needed to support community composting work assists the city's efforts exponentially.
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City Council members, thanks for advocating for the increase in the compost infrastructure and the related increase in green jobs.
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Helping to make our soils healthier, our grass greener, and leading to the reduction of the amount of food scraps currently exported to be incinerated or landfilled.
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Which we all know disboils our collective soil, air, and water.
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Thank you for this opportunity to speak in your work.
