Department of Sanitation
Bloomberg 's emergency sanitation plan: Fewer pickups, no recycling, no tickets
To speed the clean-up effort in hard-hit areas, the city is reducing trash pickups in the relatively unscathed ones, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today at a Department of Sanitation depot in the Rockaways. More
The composter-breeders of New York
Jodie Colón, according to the list of contributors to the NYC Compost Project’s Master Composter manual, “defines crazy for composting.”
This is literally true. Colón, a full-time compost educator at the New York Botanical Garden, actually designed a quiz to measure composting passion. Points are awarded for behavior like striking up a compost conversation with a stranger, bragging about compost, or knowing “too much” about earthworms’ anatomy, velocity and sex life. More
