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GREENBURGH STUDENTS TO DEVELOP CAMPAIGN TO PROMOTE RECYCLING FOOD WASTE
Release Date: June 17, 2013

Greenburgh student interns to organize effort to promote recycling food waste this summer

Greenburgh Town Supervisor Paul Feiner and Town Clerk Judith Beville will be assigning summer interns an interesting project this summer--the students will be asked to organize an effort to encourage food waste composting. The students will research the issue, produce and tape public service announcements. They will develop a publicity campaign to encourage residents and businesses to promote food waste composting. And, will work to persuade local governments and school districts to lead by example: composting food waste in school, municipal kitchens. The town has a meals and wheels/nutrition program and has a kitchen that prepares meals. Schools have cafeteria's.
Over a month ago APPLE BANK agreed to sponsor this years summer internship program with a $5000 grant, which will be shared among students working on the project.  At the time the town applied for the grant we had advised the bank that we would use the funds to promote organic recycling. Mercy College students will also be involved in this exciting initiative.
A copy of a WCBS report about what NYC is doing appears below.  Students interested in working on this initiative this summer should contact Town Supervisor Paul Feiner at 993 1545 or Town Clerk Judith Beville, who oversees the internship program at 993-1504.
PAUL FEINER

Report: Bloomberg Plans Food Waste Compost Program That Could Become Mandatory

2 Mayoral Candidates Are Backing Program, Report Says

June 16, 2013 11:36 PM
 
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — If Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way, you might have to start separating food scraps out from your trash.
A New York Times report Sunday said the mayor plans to being collecting scraps for composting, after high participation in recent pilot programs.
The newspaper also said Bloomberg will hire a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps per year. The plant will be used to turn the waste into biogas, which could be used for electrical generation, the paper reported.
The program will start off as voluntary, but officials predicted in the newspaper that composting will become mandatory in the next few years.
If composting does become mandatory, city residents who fail to separate out their food scraps could get a ticket – much like those who do not recycle paper, plastic, glass and metal.
Pino, a restaurant owner in the Bronx, told 1010 WINS’ Gene Michaels he does not like the plan.
“It creates difficulty for all of us,” he said, “not only because we have to separate – also economically, because we have to buy new containers. We have to select them. We have to put times on it.”
Pino also made a point of criticizing Bloomberg and his policies.
“The mayor has always been like that,” he said. “The mayor has always cared to do things in his own way. He doesn’t consider the small person or the little person. He just does whatever he thinks is best for himself.”
Mayor Bloomberg leaves office at the end of the year his successor could do away with the program, the paper reported. But Democratic mayoral candidates Christine Quinn and Bill de Blasio have already expressed support for making it mandatory, the paper reported.
San Francisco and Seattle already have mandatory composting programs in place, the paper pointed out.
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