Compost Pickup Will Come To These Queens Communities In 2018

QUEENS, NY -- Convenient composting services are on the horizon for hundreds of Queens households under the city's plan to expand its food scrap and yard waste pickup services to all of New Yorkers by the end of 2018.

The Department of Sanitation's NYC Organics Program collects food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard waste from households citywide to turn it into compost or renewable energy. The upcoming expansion promises to bring that service, either through curbside pickup or a nearby drop-off spot, to unserved areas - including six in Queens.

Those neighborhoods - sorted into Community Boards 1,3, 4, 6, 12 and 13 - include Astoria, Long Island City, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, Corona, Forest Hills, Rego Park, Jamaica, Springfields Garden, Queens Village and more. View the full list here.

In addition, these Queens Community Board areas were the most recent confirmed to receive curbside compost pickup in 2018:

Community Board 2 – Long Island City, Sunnyside and Woodside

Collection service starts: Week of Oct. 30

Your brown bin arrives: October

Community Board 7 - Auburndale, Bay Terrace, Beechhurst, College Point, Flushing, Linden Hill, Malba, Queensboro Hill, Whitestone and Willets Point

Collection service starts: Week of Oct. 2

Your brown bin arrives: September

Community Board 8 - Briarwood, South Flushing, Fresh Meadows, Hillcrest, Holliswood, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens Hills and Utopia

Collection service starts: Week of Oct. 2

Your brown bin arrives: September

Community Board 9 - Ozone Park, Kew Gardens, Richmond Hill, Woodhaven

Collection service starts: Week of Oct. 30

Your brown bin arrives: October

Community Board 14 - Breezy Point, Belle Harbor, Broad Channel, Neponsit, Arvene, Bayswater, Edgemere, Rockaway Park, Rockaway and Far Rockaway

Collection Service Starts: Week of Oct. 30

Your brown bin arrives: October

Collection for all the neighborhoods will happen once a week on the recycling day, according to the department. Upon joining the program, households will receive their own bins and a starter kit, including a small kitchen container and a brochure. Apartment buildings will get a larger brown bin and kit to share.

The program will also expand into several unserved neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx. Click here for the full list of schedules for all the new serviced areas.

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