TESTIMONY
Claire Miflin, Executive Director of the Center for Zero Waste Design, on the Importance of Community Composting and Parks for Creating Climate and Social Resilience
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Claire Miflin argues that New York City needs to fund community composting and parks to survive climate change.
- Composting in parks can regenerate soils and involve residents in stewardship
- Parks provide cooling, mitigate stormwater, and reduce flooding
- Community composting and parks allow New Yorkers to work together to improve their communities
- Miflin urges restoring $7 million for community composting and $4 million for new compost sites
- She says composting education helps residents learn to separate organic waste
Claire Miflin
7:41:23
Thank you for the opportunity to testify.
7:41:26
I'm Claire Meflenek executive directors of the Census Bureau Waste Design, also a member of the Savar Compass Coalition and supporter of Forest for all.
7:41:36
I just want to make the overall point that we need parks, we need compass.
7:41:41
They work well together.
7:41:43
For so many reasons.
7:41:44
You know?
7:41:46
If we can compost in parks, we can regenerate soils in parks, We can help regenerate soils to street trees city wide, and we can get people to get involved in stewarding those street trees and stewarding those parks.
7:42:02
So, you know, the administration says they're doing climate budgeting, and deputy mayor said every dollar has to do double duty now.
7:42:09
Has to not only do its purpose in terms of building out infrastructure or providing energy, but it has to lower emissions, cool, and absorb water.
7:42:18
And that is the only way that New York City will survive.
7:42:20
Well, I think that was really well said, and I can think of nothing more important than the city to fun than that case than community composting and parks.
7:42:28
Because they bring cooling, they mitigate storm water, They help with reducing flooding, and they allow New Yorkers to get together and work together to improve their communities and to be part of creating climate and social resilience.
7:42:48
So I would just encourage the council to keep fighting for that restoration of community composting funding and are funding for parks.
7:42:57
And so the $7,000,000 for community composting, the 4,000,000 for the new compost sites because we need much more good quality compass that we have now, and as everybody else has said, so the fact that it helps educate New Yorkers on how to separate Zscabs.
7:43:13
Thank you very much for your time.
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