The bg视讯 Compost Program is typically focused on collecting your food scraps, 但是今年春天, we’re also giving away free compost made from the food scraps we’ve collected in the last year! This is our annual act of reciprocity: we're closing the loop and giving thanks to the thousands of New Yorkers who have saved their food scraps from landfills by bringing them to our Food Scrap Drop-off sites. Small, 2-pound bags of ready-to-use compost will be available on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last, 如下所述.

纽约制造的堆肥

The compost for this Giveback is provided by two 纽约市堆肥项目 host sites: 地球物质NY and 皇后植物园. If you’ve dropped off food scraps with bg视讯, then the bag of compost you’ll receive may contain nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium from your very own peels and pits. That’s what we mean when we say “closed loop.”

堆肥回馈计划

Quantities are limited and based on average weekly participation at each drop-off site, so consider coming early to make sure you get a bag.

2022年堆肥归还日期	BOROUGH	LOCATION	TIME	堆肥
4月1日星期五	Queens	科罗纳食品垃圾投递 Roosevelt Ave & 103 St	8am-1pm	皇后植物园
4月3日星期日	Queens	杰克逊海茨绿色市场 79街和北大道交口	8:30am-2pm	皇后植物园
4月3日星期日	Queens	林山蔬菜市场 70th Ave & Austin St	9am-1pm	皇后植物园
4月7日星期四	Queens	邱园食物废料投递处 都市大街 & Audley St	9:30am-12:30pm	皇后植物园
4月9日星期六	Queens	田园诗Greenmarket Skillman Ave & 42nd St	9am-1pm	皇后植物园
4月9日星期六	Queens	里奇伍德食品垃圾投递处 Myrtle Ave & Cypress Ave	9:30am-1:30pm	皇后植物园
4月27日星期三	Manhattan	Madison Sq. 公园食物废料投递处 23rd St & Broadway	8am-1pm	Earth Matter
4月27日星期三	Manhattan	达格哈马舍尔德广场绿色市场 E. 47街和第二大道交口	8am-12:30pm	Earth Matter
4月28日星期四	Manhattan	第181街食物废料投递处 181st St & 华盛顿堡大街	7am-12:30pm	Earth Matter
4月28日星期四	Manhattan	145街的食物残渣投递处 145th St & Edgecombe Ave	7:30am-12pm	Earth Matter
4月28日星期四	Manhattan	Tucker Sq. Greenmarket 66th St & Columbus Ave	8am-11am	Earth Matter
4月28日星期四	Brooklyn	威尔逊大街食物废料投递处 Wilson Ave & Moffat St	9am-1pm	Earth Matter
4月29日星期五	Manhattan	97街蔬菜市场 W 97th & Amsterdam	8am-12:30pm	Earth Matter
4月29日星期五	Manhattan	E 96th St East 96th St & Lexington Ave	7:30am-11:30am	Earth Matter
4月30日星期六	Brooklyn	布鲁克林自治大厅绿色市场 Court St & Montague St	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
4月30日星期六	Brooklyn	大军广场绿色市场 Flatbush Ave & 东路(拱门北面)	8am-2pm	Earth Matter
4月30日星期六	Brooklyn	麦卡伦公园绿色市场 北12街和德里格斯大道	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
5月5日星期三	Bronx	莫特港食物废料投递处 东142街545号	9am-12pm	Earth Matter
5月5日星期三	Bronx	莫里萨尼亚食品垃圾投递 麦金利广场在第169街 & Boston Rd	10am-1pm	Earth Matter
5月5日星期四	Brooklyn	富兰克林大街食物废料投递处 东百汇 & Franklin Ave	8:30am-11:30am	Earth Matter
5月5日星期四	Brooklyn	Prospect Heights Food Scrap Drop-off Park Place & Carlton Ave	8am-11am	Earth Matter
5月5日星期四	Bronx	诺伍德Farmstand E Gun Hill Rd & Dekalb Ave	9am-2pm	Earth Matter
5月5日星期四	Bronx	BronxWorks食品废料投递处 1130大广场	10am-1pm	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Bronx	New Roots Community Farm Food Scrap Drop-off 670大广场	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Bronx	福德汉姆广场食品废料投递处 E Fordham Rd & 3rd Ave	8am-11:30am	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Bronx	Montefiore新鲜食品盒 展望大道871号	11am-2pm	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Bronx	帕克彻斯特食品垃圾投递处 韦斯特切斯特大街 & 白原路	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Brooklyn	柏树山食物废料投递处 Fulton St & Richmond St	10am-1pm	Earth Matter
Friday, May 6	Brooklyn	皇冠高地农场 东百汇 & Franklin Ave	8:30am-11:30am	Earth Matter
5月7日星期六	Brooklyn	肯辛顿食品垃圾投递处 McDonald Ave & Albemarle Rd	8:30am-11:30am	Earth Matter
5月7日星期六	Brooklyn	第七大道日落公园绿色市场 7th Ave & 44th St	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
5月7日星期六	Brooklyn	湾岭蔬菜市场 3rd Ave & 95th Street	8am-12:30pm	Earth Matter
Sunday, May 8	Brooklyn	本森赫斯特食品垃圾投递处 18th Ave & 81st St	9am-1pm	Earth Matter
Sunday, May 8	Brooklyn	卡罗花园蔬菜市场 史密斯街和第一街交口	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
Sunday, May 8	Manhattan	77街/79街Greenmarket 哥伦布大道之间的第77街 & 中央公园西	9am-3pm	Earth Matter
5月14日星期六	Brooklyn	格林堡绿色市场 华盛顿公园 & Myrtle Ave	9am-2pm	Earth Matter
5月14日星期六	Brooklyn	床上学习新鲜食品盒 迪凯特街和刘易斯大街	11am-3pm	Earth Matter
5月14日星期六	Manhattan	Abingdon Sq. Greenmarket W12th St & 8th Ave	8am-2pm	Earth Matter
5月14日星期六	Manhattan	翠贝卡Greenmarket Greenwich St & Duane St	8am-1pm	Earth Matter
5月14日星期六	Manhattan	Inwood Greenmarket Seaman Ave & 依咸街(北角)	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
5月15日星期日	Brooklyn	Cortelyou Greenmarket 亚皆老路和考特佑路	9am-1pm	Earth Matter
5月15日星期日	Manhattan	哥伦比亚Greenmarket 116th St & Broadway	8am-12pm	Earth Matter
5月15日星期日	Manhattan	沥青绿色食物废料投递点 East 91st St & York Ave	7:30am-12:30pm	Earth Matter
6月24日星期五	Bronx	林肯医院绿色市场 149街b/t公园和莫里斯大道	8am-12pm	Earth Matter

如何使用堆肥

You don’t need to have a backyard or garden to have a use for compost. Indoor plants benefit from an annual application of compost, and we all have access to street trees that can use some love. We recommend mixing your compost into soil at a ratio of at least 3 parts soil to 1 part compost for best results.

• For outdoor plants: Rake, sprinkle, or mix the compost into the soil of garden or tree beds.
• For indoor plants: Gently mix an inch of compost into the top layer of potting soil, or blend with potting soil when repotting.

Compost is not shelf-stable, and will not store well. Please use your compost within a week or two of receiving it.

Our small Compost Giveback bags are also compostable. Please remove the tin tie and sticker before bringing the empty bag back to a bg视讯 Food Scrap Drop-off site for composting.

Looking for a larger quantity of compost?

The bg视讯 Compost Program has the opportunity to give out finished compost bags made at the Staten Island Compost Site by the Department of Sanitation. We have 150 bags of approximately 30 lbs. each that we can deliver to interested participants at our designated food scrap drop-off sites for pick-up. 请填写bg视讯的 表格要求完成堆肥 bg视讯会和你联系的. 请注意，由于供应有限, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to receive finished compost. The Department of Sanitation is also listing options for receiving or picking up larger quantities of finished compost on their website here. 

到底什么是堆肥?

During Compost Giveback events, there’s often some confusion about what we’re giving away and why. 以下是一些需要了解的定义:

• Food Scraps (noun) – the uneaten foods or parts of food. 把这些东西叫做废料, 而不是浪费, highlights their value and potential for beneficial use, including human and animal consumption of rescued edible foods, composting, 厌氧消化.

• Composting (verb) ——有氧过程, biological decomposition that transforms organic materials like food scraps and fallen leaves into compost.

• Compost (noun) – a soil amendment that resembles dark, 易碎的表层土, 有令人愉快的泥土气味吗, and has no resemblance to the original organic materials from which it is made. Compost refers to the finished product of the composting process, and is not to be confused with food scraps, which are just one ingredient in the composting process.

• Soil (noun) – the upper layer of earth in which plants grow. Healthy soil consists of 45% minerals, 25% water, 25% air, and 5% organic matter. Soil is not to be confused with compost, which is a soil amendment that adds organic matter and beneficial microbes to soil.

When you drop off your food scraps with bg视讯, we bring them to composting facilities, where they’re mixed with carbon-rich materials like leaves and wood chips, 然后转化成堆肥. The finished compost can be used to improve soil quality for houseplants, gardens, 和行道树一样.

额外的资源

• 如何使用堆肥提示单 来自纽约市堆肥项目
• See the 纽约市街道树图 for tips on how to care for urban trees.
• For information about getting compost in larger quantities, visit nyc.gov / getcompost. 

The compost giveback is made possible by funding from the NYC Department of Sanitation.