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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Justin Green, Executive Director of Big Reuse
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Justin Green, Executive Director of Big Reuse, expresses gratitude towards the city council for continuing funding for community composting groups across New York City. He emphasizes the importance and impact of community composting projects in education, behavior change, and building support for citywide composting initiatives.
- Community composting is described as essential, despite being a small fraction of the city's sanitation budget
- Green highlights the role of community composting in educating residents and creating sustainable alternatives
- He argues that local composting projects build community, are more sustainable, and create green networks with broader impacts
Justin Green
3:03:09
Hey.
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You.
3:03:11
I'm Justin Green.
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I'm the executive director of Big Reuse.
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We're also here to express a lot of gratitude towards council member and the city council for continuing funding when the mayor cut funding for community composting groups across the city.
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Your funding allows 14 groups doing amazing projects all over the city from urban farms to mid scale composting sites to master composter classes to classes with kids.
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Amazing kids speaking today about how compost education has affected them and inspired them.
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And I think that community composting work is such a small fraction of what the city spends on sanitation but it's really essential.
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It's what built the support for curbside.
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It's what continues to educate New York City residents about composting and the value of composting.
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There's a lot of behavior change that has to happen.
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It's gonna be take a long time to make that change and our groups have shown how important it is and how successful and impactful we are at getting people on board.
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And so I think it's really a key for the success of curbside but it also provides the real sustainable alternative to the path the city's taken.
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And so the ideal ecological standpoint, a lot of these students from Harvard School really got into the details and science and they're right on.
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And I think so what we're doing is local, it builds community, it's more sustainable, it's more ecological and it creates green networks and green attitudes in the city that have a much bigger impact beyond the actual projects we're working on.
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So thank you again for restoring the funding.
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Appreciate it.
Shaun Abreu
3:05:03
Thank you, Justin.