Clare Miflin, founder of the Center for Zero Waste Design and frequent MSWAB collaborator, published an article in City Limits encouraging a redesign of NYC’s system for organics waste collection.
Although redirecting organics from the landfill to composting is the most significant step the city can take to achieve zero waste, the city’s COVID-19 crisis budget decimated funding for the existing organics program.
In the article, Miflin analyzes limitations to the existing program and cites scalable, affordable solutions from NYC neighborhoods that can be deployed to collect all organic waste. Read the article here.