6 More Brooklyn Neighborhoods to Get Curbside Compost Collection

The city’s composting pilot program in Brooklyn is doubling in size next month — expanding to include Red Hook, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, the Columbia Street Waterfront District and all parts of Park Slope and Gowanus not already participating in the program.

The NYC Department of Sanitation has a map up on its website (PDF) of the newly expanded pilot area.

Homes in the area will receive compost bins to set out on the street alongside trash and recycling bins. Curbside collection will begin the week of Oct. 5, Brooklyn Paper reports — except for the new ground in Park Slope and Gowanus, where collection will start the week of Oct. 26.

The Paper also notes that when service expanded to Greenpoint earlier this summer, compost bins started to stink up the neighborhood while festering between collection days.

Read the full story at Brooklyn Paper.