Organics Collection Cut To One Day A Week In Park Slope

PARK SLOPE, NY — The city will cut organics collections around Park Slope to once a week at the end of next month, according to the local community board.

Sanitation announced it will only pick up waste in the brown organic buns on recycling days around Community Board 6 instead of twice to make the process "more efficient," according to a flier posted by the board.

The reduction — which starts on July 30 in Park Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill — was first reported by Bklyner.

The move comes after Sanitation announced it would pause the expansion on the program to collect organic waste, like food scraps, into new neighborhoods and look into spots where it's currently in place to "streamline the program," the Gothamist reported.

Last year, only three percent of the waste thrown out by residents in the program got recycled, with the other 97 percent not even getting put into the brown bins, the website reported.

Image courtesy of the Department of Sanitation