Annual tons of food scraps dropped off at Green Markets and nonprofit partners. Also includes deliveries of organics such as leaf and wood wastes to nonprofit partners. In FY 2021, DSNY suspended its collection of food scraps from Green Markets due to COVID and COVID-related budget cuts. In FY 2021, nonprofit partners started to haul their own organic material.
The number of NYC households, residential buildings, and new schools receiving curbside organics collection, by Fiscal Year that collection began. Curbside Composting service is currently available to all Queens and Brooklyn residents (no sign-up needed), as well as select community boards in Bronx and Manhattan. Curbside Composting is expanding to ALL NYC residents. For more information, visit: https://nyc.gov/curbsidecomposting. Note that Curbside Composting service was suspended from May 4, 2020 until October 1, 2021.
Locations where NYC residents can drop off their leaves to be composted. These are seasonal and temporary drop-off options; residents should not drop off leaves at these locations outside of the specific dates listed.