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Canary Media: New York City now mandates composting. Here comes the hard part. (Jan 2025)
Urbanize NYC: Affordable Tree Guard Project Takes Root in Brooklyn (Jan 2025)
CBS News: Here's how North Brooklyn residents are working to protect vulnerable trees (Dec 2024)
Astoria Post: AM Zohran Mamdani announces tree-planting partnership with ‘Rise Light and Power’ and ‘Big Reuse’ to improve air quality in Queens (Dec 2024)
Queens Chronicle: Mamdani stumps in Asthma Alley (Dec 2024)
MSN: Composting keeps NYC environmentally friendly (Nov 2024)
Waste Dive: New York City Community Compost program funds restored in FY25 budget (Jul 2024)
AM NY: NYC to get cleaner and greener with enhanced city funding for cleanliness initiatives (Jul 2024)
Epic Center: Budget cuts: Funding restored but problems remain for some community composting groups (Jul 2024)
NY Times: Libraries and Arts Program Sparred from Cuts in N.Y.C. Budget Deal (Jun 2024)
Hellgate: The Adams Administration Is Paving Community Compost Paradise for a Parking Lot (Jun 2024)
Sawdust: The End Of Community Composting In NYC And What We Can Do About It (Jun 2024)
New York City Council Press Release: NYC Council Calls for Restoration of Funding Cuts to Critical Sanitation Programs and Services ahead of Executive Budget Hearing (May 2024)
NY1: Advocates call on mayor to refund community compost program (May 2024)
NY1: City cuts funding for community composting organizations (May 2024)
Civil Eats: Mayor Eric Adams scrapped New York City’s compost project. Here’s what will be lost.
ABC7: Program teaching how to compost cut from NYC budget, as compost numbers 'poor,' says report (Apr 2024)
Gothamist: Major NYC compost operation, reeling from budget cuts, to be booted from Queens site (Apr 2024)
NRDC: NYC Parks Department Wants to Pave Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot (Apr 2024)
Queens Chronicle: Activists hope to save compost site (Apr 2024)
Queens Ledger: LIC Rallies Around Queensbridge Composting Site (Apr 2024)
Gazette: Big Reuse Hosts Earth Day Event to Save Beloved Composting Site from Eviction (Apr 2024)
LIC Post: Community rallies to preserve Queensbridge composting as Parks Dept. eviction looms (Apr 2024)
The City: Parks Department Throws Out Long Island City Compost Center (Mar 2024)
NY Times: In the Fight Over N.Y.C. Sidewalks, Tree Beds Are the Smallest Frontier (Mar 2024)
The Guardian: What a waste: New York City budget cuts eviscerate community composting groups (Feb 2024)
Biocycle: Why New York City Needs Community Composting (Feb 2024)
Bloomberg: Don’t Kill Community Composting in New York City (Feb 2024)
Bloomberg: NYC’s Community Composting Cuts Are Putting Its Curbside Plan at Risk (Jan 2024)
City Limits: Community Composting Produces More Than Just Good Dirt (Jan 2024)
Waste 360: New York City Defunds Community Composting, Leaving Few Remaining Groups Scrambling (Jan 2024)
Epic Center: It’s getting harder to compost in NYC. Here’s why. (Jan 2024)
Waste Dive: Mill, others provide emergency stopgap funding for NYC community composters (Dec 2023)
Bloomberg: New York City will eliminate community composting programs when budget cuts go into effect (Nov 2023)
WNYC: NYC community composting programs face collapse after Adams administration proposed cuts (Nov 2023)
ISLR: Statement on NYC Community Composting Budget Cuts (Nov 2023)