From trash to treasure: Inside Staten Island’s compost facility turning waste into ‘black gold’

The ’70s Performance Artist Who Became a Hero to ‘Garbage Men’

The New York City Sanitation Department in the late 1970s was not an obvious place to find a warm welcome for feminist conceptual art. But the newly appointed sanitation commissioner, Norman Steisel, had arrived as an outlier in the world of municipal waste. Before he began his career in city government, first working in budget offices, he had been a graduate student in chemical engineering and applied mathematics at Yale, where he fell in with …

From trash to treasure: Inside Staten Island’s compost facility turning waste into ‘black gold’

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Department of Sanitation facility on the West Shore has been turning out compost — dubbed “black gold” by city officials — since 1991, but its workload got quite a bit bigger last year.

How NYC crushes gnawed apple cores and greasy pizza boxes into ‘black gold’

The Post went on a tour of the Department of Sanitation's compost facility in Fresh Kills on Staten Island.

One person’s trash is another fifth-grader’s science project

The newly revived student council at Godfrey Elementary wraps up the year with a composting project.