Amsterdam Leaf Collection and Composting Program Underway Sponsored by Ace Hardware
Thank you to Joe Tesiero and Ace Hardware Amsterdam for being a Great Community Partner! Ace Hardware has graciously donated 2500 leaf collection bags to the City of Amsterdam for our Leaf Collection and Composting Pilot Program. Stop in to Ace Hardware Amsterdam located at 1000 Riverfront Center in Amsterdam to pick up your bags today, limit five bags per family.
The objectives of the Pilot are as follows:
• Remove as many leaves as possible from the City’s waste stream and measure the savings realized on transfer station tipping fees for doing so
• Calculate the cost for converting the collected leaves into compost
Reasons why every resident of our City should participate in this pilot program:
• Composting will help eliminate the costly dumping of these leaves at landfills
• Composting can replenish the nutrients in soil, which can then be used as topsoil for other City public works & parks and recreation projects
• Composting helps reduce global warming. Leaves are an organic waste and when organic wastes are dumped in landfills, the dark, low-oxygen conditions cause the leaves to degrade into methane, one of the most destructive greenhouse gases
• Composting not only prevents methane emissions, it actually pulls harmful carbon gases out of the atmosphere
Thank you gain to Ace Hardware for being a Great Community Partner!
