This is not a load of crap!
BK ROT, run by a crew from hardworking Bushwick, is also selling “locally sour, handmade” dissolved food waste as compost – to its posh Park Slope neighbors.
The eco-friendly shoppers of the ultra-crunchy Park Slope Food Coop can buy a small paper bag of nutrient- and organism-rich goods for $ 6.25 per pound.
It suggests a hefty markup ranging from $ 3 to $ 5 per 10 gallon “burlap bag” advertised on the non-profit organization Website. Lowe’s List is a 40-lb. Organic manure bag for $ 3.98.
Park Slope Food Coop – whose motto includes the phrase “low prices” – did not return messages.
BK ROT is “appointed by young people of color who, according to their website, haul residential and commercial organic waste and convert it into high quality manure.” Referring to Gotham’s first Native American residents and a community garden at the intersection of Mural and Declub Avenues, the change is said to occur on “Lenpe Lands BK ROT Stewards”.
Manure is processed in boxes and in four-foot piles on the garden field. Once torn apart by breaking coffee grounds, egg peels, banana peels, etc., BK ROT uses it to organize urban farms or to sell to Brooklynites.
“It’s just old food scraps,” a slopper begged for the post. “Sounds expensive.”
The company says that its carbon-free, bicycle-driven operations converted 109 tons of organic waste into 54 tons of manure in 2019. Annual statement. In this way, according to the report, the organization works “to fight climate change, environmental racism, and treason”.
BK ROT reported program revenue of $ 19,375 in 2018, according to federal filings, plus grants and contributions of $ 154,510. Founder Sandra Nurse – who unsuccessfully ran for City Council after the unexpected resignation of Rafael Espinal – took $ 23,915 in compensation from the organization that year, according to the tax filing.
BK ROT, established in 2013, did not return messages seeking comment.
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