WorldChanging NYC contributor Wendy Brawer has just announced the release of the latest offering from her Green Map project: the Composting Green Map of Manhattan. The handily pocket-sized map shows food scrap-happy Manhattanites where to take their veggie peels, apple cores, coffee grounds and other organic kitchen waste to be composted and naturally recycled into rich soil, instead of ending up being trucked or barged out of the city to a landfill, and lost to the ecological chain of reuse and renewal.

The map also includes a complete list of compostable items, along with information on how to set up your own home composting.

Celebrate the new map (a co-production with the Lower East Side Ecology Center) by picking up a free copy this Saturday, Dec. 9, from noon to 2 PM at the Union Square Greenmarket. Or go to Green Apple Map to download a digital version, or learn how to get one via the postal mail.

Congratulations, Wendy!

Does Manhattan offer curbside food-waste pickup for composting? I just learned that San Francisco was the first city to offer such a service.

Posted by: matt waxman on December 7, 2006 7:41 PM

To the best of my knowledge, the city only offers organic waste pickup for leaves and Christmas trees (and the latter has been irregular since 2001, when a lot of city services were cut back due to the post-9/11 attack economic slump).

The NYC Compost Project is the Dept. of Sanitation's official composting effort at the moment.

Posted by: Emily Gertz on December 8, 2006 11:06 AM