Mayor Walsh Expands Boston’s Community Compost Program to Include City Hall

BOSTON – November 25, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — Mayor Martin J. Walsh announced today that the City of Boston is scaling up the Project Oscar community composting pilot program to include City Hall Plaza, in addition to three new neighborhood locations. Residents will now be able to drop-off their food scraps at Grove Hall Plaza in Dorchester, Curtis Hall Community Center in Jamaica Plain, Faneuil Gardens Housing Development in Brighton, as well City Hall Plaza. These four new sites are in addition to the two existing bins in the North End and East Boston.

Nearly 200 Boston residents participated in the pilot program in the North End and East Boston in the fall of 2014, where feedback was collected through a community participation survey advertised at local farmers’ markets and community events. Because of the success of the pilot locations – where in the past six months, 13,500 pounds of food waste have been diverted – four new sites were chosen to expand the free composting program across the City of Boston.

The new Project Oscar community drop-off sites in Brighton, Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Downtown are open now to all neighborhood residents interested in participating. Community bins will be emptied weekly by the Department of Public Works, and collected food scraps will continue to be taken to Rocky Hill Farm in Saugus, MA.

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