Launched in 2019, the Battery Park City Dog Waste Composting Program creates nutrient-rich compost from dog waste and a mix of newspaper or wood chip materials. That then gets applied to gardens ...

Garden Waste – Deadheaded flowers, trimmings, and spent plants (as long as they aren’t diseased) are perfect for compost. You can even use some weeds in your compost in moderation.

Homemade compost is an easy way to help your garden thrive, and put your kitchen waste to good use. And knowing how to make ...

Upcycling–or composting–dog poop into a resource for the garden is, by far, the greenest way to go. If you aren’t lucky enough to live near a facility that can compost your dog’s doo ...

Understood, but the reason compost containers exist in the park goes beyond saving cents. If disposed of in a plastic bag, the poop produces methane – a greenhouse gas that feeds global warming.

The Dog Waste Composting Program is doing their part to help the environment by encouraging Battery Park City residents to compost their dog waste. Each day crews pick up the waste, nearly three ...

The United States Department of Agriculture says dog-waste compost can be used as a soil additive for things like lawns, flower beds and potted plants, but not on anything grown for human consumption.

Around 6.5 million tons of [mostly] plastic-wrapped dog poop winds up in landfills in the United States every year. As most cities see it, that’s the only safe option. Unlike wildlife scat, which ...