{"id":216,"date":"2024-02-29T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T20:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=216"},"modified":"2024-06-11T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:39:33","slug":"waste-dive-we-are-behind-nycs-new-sanitation-chair-presses-for-better-organics-funding-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/02\/29\/waste-dive-we-are-behind-nycs-new-sanitation-chair-presses-for-better-organics-funding-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Waste Dive: \u2018We are behind\u2019: NYC\u2019s new sanitation chair presses for better organics funding, transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/new-york-sanitation-compost-digestion-dsny\/708899\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jacob Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Budget cuts to New York City\u2019s community composting program are \u201cunacceptable,\u201d Council Member Shaun Abreu, the new chair of the city\u2019s Sanitation and Solid Waste Management committee, said during his first hearing of the session Tuesday. Restoration of the program\u2019s funding, along with other organics issues, containerization and oversight of the city\u2019s commercial waste zones are priorities for his committee and the council, said Abreu, who serves a district in Northern Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>The city has a target to divert all reusable waste, including organics,&nbsp;from landfills and incinerators by 2030.&nbsp;But a reversal of the cuts and additional actions need to be taken to meet that goal, Abreu said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city already spends hundreds of millions of dollars on organics right now by sending it to landfills and incinerators,\u201d Abreu said at the hearing.&nbsp;\u201cWith organics collection set to go citywide by the end of this year, it\u2019s incumbent upon us to strengthen the programming that we know works and keep fighting for expansion, transparency, and stakeholder involvement in what could be the most successful organic diversion program in the country, if done right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wastedive.com\/news\/new-york-sanitation-compost-digestion-dsny\/708899\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Jacob Wallace<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Budget cuts to New York City\u2019s community composting program are \u201cunacceptable,\u201d Council Member Shaun Abreu, the new chair of the city\u2019s Sanitation and Solid Waste Management committee, said during his first hearing of the session Tuesday. Restoration of the program\u2019s funding, along with other organics issues, containerization and oversight of the city\u2019s commercial waste zones are priorities for his committee and the council, said Abreu, who serves a district in Northern Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/02\/29\/waste-dive-we-are-behind-nycs-new-sanitation-chair-presses-for-better-organics-funding-transparency\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}