Food Scrap Drop-Off Locations for Composting in New York City

Locations where New York City residents can drop off food scraps for composting, published by the City of New York. The dataset was last updated on March 22, 2026. It is provided in multiple formats including CSV, JSON, and RDF.

Use Cases

• Map community composting accessibility based on drop-off location data.
• Analyze spatial distribution of food scrap collection services for urban planning.
• Build civic applications to help residents find nearby compost drop-off points.

Strengths

• Published by the authoritative City of New York organization.
• Available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.
• Last updated on March 22, 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

City of New York

Collection Method

Likely collected and maintained by the NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY).

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 03:55:25.217778

Geography

New York City