TESTIMONY
Ulrike Nischan, Representative of the Solid Waste Advisory Board, on Restoring Funding for New York City's Community Composting Programs
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Nischan urges the city council to restore funding for community composting programs that were cut in the recent budget.
- She represents the Solid Waste Advisory Board which advocates for these programs
- Community composting projects provide outreach, technical support, education, and responsibly process diverted food scraps
- They distribute high-quality compost for free to parks and gardens, helping address climate change impacts
- The programs build an inclusive community around composting across income levels
- Relying only on curbside organics collection is insufficient for resident participation without education efforts
Ulrike Nischan
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Good afternoon.
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Cheers, Brandon.
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Are you for allowing me to speak today?
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And for your support, of community composting.
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My name is Lori Kinnishaun, and I'm speaking on behalf of the 4 bureau based fellow waste advisory board.
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I'm here to ask you to restore the cut Duke Media Compost and bring back all of the jobs lost as the recently released audio analysis of the executive budget shows.
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The money is there to fund this valuable work.
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As you can tell from the outpouring of support from for community compost even today, this is really vital and important to people across New York City.
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Program creation is inclusive space bringing together New Yorkers of all income levels and backgrounds.
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The community complex projects were never designed to be an upscale solution for New York City Organics, but they are very efficient at doing what they were designed to do, which includes outreach to New York City residents about compost and postgraduate version, technical support for community garden and compost programs.
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Education of students, community community gardeners, and importantly, the master composition program providing the most environmentally responsible and processing for food scraps diverted and collected.
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And last but not least, distributing the highest quality compost at no charge in New York City Parks, Botanical Gardens, and forestry care events that help the city address climate change impacts and mitigate.
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Proximity and depletion of soils.
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So only through the community compost project, feet down the street, hands on the soil person to person outreach.
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We'll see why curbside compost curved fiber organic collection be sure to be a seed and reduce methane created by land billing and its operating organics.
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That's because DSNY strategy relying on the legality of organic separation of bias is not sufficient.
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As you can see from recycling rates in New York City, that have proven this.
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Those rates have never reached the modest goal of 23%.
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Now as the city embarks on this new stream of source separation, residents need ish education and a reason to participate.
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So please restore and build up the drop off sites, not posting any education infrastructure that budget cuts have brought to the brink of destruction.
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And secure their future so we don't end up in the same place in 1 year.
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Again, we know it's not a matter of New York City lacking.
David Carr
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The time
Christopher Marte
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has expired.
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Thank you.
Ulrike Nischan
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Crucial programming, we will also know that staining from funding community composting is a luxury.
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The city cannot afford.
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Thank you.
