QUESTION
What are the preliminary data on the compost program participation in Queens and Brooklyn and details on the outreach efforts?
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The Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs and Customer Experience provides preliminary data on the compost program's outreach efforts and participation, revealing significant efforts and a record amount of diverted material.
- 100,000 bins distributed across the first two boroughs with 1,700,000 households receiving mailers.
- Door knocks conducted by DSNY and CBOs in Brooklyn and Queens, reaching every building with 1 to 9 units.
- Monthly tonnage numbers of compost collected are reported on the Department's website, indicating a record amount of material diverted in FY 23.
- Expectations are set that the FY 24 will surpass the previous fiscal year's diverted material record.
Shahana K. Hanif
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And then do you have preliminary data on program participation in Queensland, which rolled out in in full in October of last year?
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Including how many tons of compost have been collected and how it compares to previous years.
0:57:20
And then I have a few more questions about the door knock doors contracted that CBO's knocked.
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Mailers sent out Brown bins distributed and decals distributed.
Joshua Goodman
0:57:33
Yes.
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So when it was about a 100,000 bins distributed in the first two boroughs, and there were mailers sent to every residence.
0:57:45
So it's about 1,700,000.
0:57:47
I think households that receive mailers The doorknocks were a combination of CVOs and DSNY outreach staff.
0:57:57
A lot of that was done in house.
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But we did knock the doors of every the door of every building with 1 to 9 units in the entirety of Brooklyn and Queens.
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I should remember the number.
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It's something like 600,000, 500,000.
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It's a it's a lot of door.
Shahana K. Hanif
0:58:13
And that was to you said joint with the CBOs?
Joshua Goodman
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Yes.
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See.
0:58:17
CBS did some, and DSNY did the bulk of it.
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But, yes, we worked in concert on that.
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And then as far as participation goes, we do report monthly tonnage numbers citywide are posted on our website, and those numbers are going to, I think, become, you know, that right now you're looking at a patchwork of programs when you look at that number, and so it's a little bit hard to to parse.
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But we did see a record amount of diverted material in the FY 23 MMR, and we expect the FY 24 MMR to beat that record.
Shahana K. Hanif
0:58:55
Amazing.
0:58:56
Amazing.
0:58:56
This is this great news.
0:58:57
I'm really happy to hear this.
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Thank you.
