Compost Making a Difference

At the moment waste is being exposed for humans, and in some serious cases it could be spreading many unwanted diseases. The problem in New York City right now is that New Yorkers are producing more than 14 million tons of trash, which usually gets sent to landfills outside of the city. 29 percent of this waste is sustainable for composting, but all they're doing is paying expenses for trucks to drive this waste out of the city. The average New Yorker is generating about three pounds of waste per day, and a big amount of this waste is food. This food waste continues to be wasted and is not at all being composted, but they don't have enough space.

To deal with this waste, an architectural firm has unveiled concept designs for a project aiming to bring these compostable material away from landfills. This project is called Green Loop.   The people at this architecture firm have a preliminary plan to turn the city’s compostable waste into multi-purpose islands around each of the five boroughs. Currently, New York is having trucks haul their waste to the landfills, instead they will be hauling the city's organic waste to a 10 multi-layered tipping composting station built just offshore. Each of the compost island facility would be multi-layered, this indoor composting process will produce soil with rich nutrient. The waste will be pushed through the standard stages of composting, although at a huge scale, and soon put back into the real world as soil with rich nutrition. 

This plan is said to solve many of the environmental problems and would even start up new job opportunities for people. This plan will also reduce traffic congestion, as said before New York is paying many trucks to drive a long way to the landfills outside of the city to throw away the waste. With these trucks driving such long distances it causes traffic, noise pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. All of these negative affects just so that all of our waste can be landfilled where it then rots and creates even more greenhouse gas. Right now, proposes are that these people keep some of the trash closer to the city. Trucks would be able to pick up the organic waste just as they do normal trash, but rather than hauling it out to the landfills they would be depositing it at one of these dozens of coastal processing sites. When these plans take place, it is said that at least 30 percent of New York's garbage will be taken to these compost islands to of course make compost. These organic wastes will no longer be wasted and dumped into the landfills, but instead are going to turn into rich soil and are able to be sold to farmers. This project is also improving public access and developing waterfront facilities.