by Kim M 
We’ve been talking a lot about trash these days. Whether it’s about the pilot composting program or the new Big Belly Solar Bins hitting the streets, garbage is a serious problem for Greenpoint and high time it got fixed.
Say hello to Curb Your Litter, a GCEF grant winner and trash program designed to figure out why Greenpoint looks like a gigantic festering rats nest and how best to get rid of the filth.…
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This isn’t one of those roll up your sleeves community members soon to be priced out and clean up a piece of land worth millions, rather than make the property owner do it days is it? The volunteer clean up of the India Street and Bayside Fuel area was just a parody of real community clean efforts of derelict abandoned properties, from when times were in fact hard.
Hurray for composting! Boo to convoluted compacting!