Commit to Green

Happy Farmer’s Market Week!
We’re thrilled to share our weekly CSA bag from ! Every week, we’re amazed by the freshest, most delicious pesticide-free produce our local farmers provide. 🍅🥕🌽

But this week, we’re taking it one step further. Inspired by the 2017-2018 culinary series SCRAPS: Parts Uneaten, we decided to embark on our own food waste adventure! Follow the series as national Sur La Table Chef travels across the U.S., creating incredible feasts in unexpected places, using the most out-of-the-box ingredients – food waste and scraps. 🌎✨

Last week, we found a beautiful head of cauliflower in our CSA bag. Instead of tossing the leaves, we got creative and turned them into a crunchy, delicious ingredient for our vegetable pasta. 🍝🥦 Voila! Our first attempt at upcycling scraps was a success!
Join us in celebrating Farmer’s Market Week by getting creative with your produce. Let’s reduce food waste and make every bite count!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Did you know it’s estimated that more than 250 million roses are produced for Valentine’s Day? This year, let’s celebrate love and sustainability! 🌍💚 Many innovative companies are repurposing floral arrangements, giving them a second life beyond the romantic gestures. 🔄💐 These eco-conscious initiatives not only reduce waste but also contribute to a greener planet.

Check out these amazing companies leading the charge in repurposing and up-cycling flowers:

• ​BigHearted Blooms
​Website: tinyurl.com/582te2mz
• ​BloomAgainBklyn
​Website: bloomagainbklyn.org
• ​Floral with Purpose
​Website: floralswithpurpose.com
• ​Repurposed Rose
​Website: repurposedrose.org
• ​Help Us Green
​Website: helpusgreen.com

Tag your friends and spread the word about these incredible companies that are not only repurposing beautiful arrangements but also making a positive impact on the environment! 🌿🌺 Let’s spread the love not only to our special someone but also to Mother Earth. 🌏💕

‼️URGENT CALL TO ACTION

This month, Mayor Adams made significant budget cuts affecting vital city programs such as libraries, schools, and composting. Unfortunately, the consequences are hitting close to home, with a staggering $7M cut in funding for community composting services, jeopardizing crucial initiatives by organizations like more!

🌱 Our community composting services are on the brink of extinction, and we only have a month to make a difference. Let's unite to save our green spaces and sustainable practices. Swipe left to explore the compelling insights provided by and join the movement to protect community composting before it faces the axe on Jan 1.

💚 It's these incredible organizations that have been the backbone of recycling food waste across all 5 boroughs. Your participation is essential! Together, let’s ensure a sustainable future for our city. Act now and spread the word!

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Monday is compost drop-off day in the East Village. We are thankful to have provide free food scrap drop off locations for New Yorkers throughout the city. Until Manhattan gets our brown bins for residential pick-up in 2025, we depend on this location for our organic recycling needs 🙏.

🌍🌿 Embracing Climate Week NYC! 🌿🌍
This week, we join the global movement for a sustainable future. 🌱 Climate action is not an option; it's an imperative. Together, we can create change, one eco-friendly step at a time.

Kudos to , , and ’Neill for this incredible video showing the estimated 75,000 activists in Mid-town Manhattan marching to demand an end to fossil fuels. That's impact! 💪

Video: Climate Protesters March in New York City Thousands of demonstrators called on President Biden and other world leaders to stop new oil and gas drilling.

Celebrating National Farmers Market Week (August 6-12, 2023). At Commit to Green, we are passionate about supporting farmers and promoting sustainability. 🌎🫶
Our products are designed with the environment in mind, as we create plastic-free packaging from resin derived from plant and cornstarch.
We recognize the vital role of the farmer's market. Our goal is to support farmers and encourage eco-conscious practices. We are offering a promotional code in support of our farmers for this season.👩‍🌾🌿 Use the code NFMW24 for 24% off. Check out our produce bags here: https://tinyurl.com/4s3wfpct

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We love collaborating and supporting our local community.💖💖We had a great time today, volunteering CSA event. A special thanks to Karen and Charles for showing us around the garden and telling us the amazing history behind it. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). No worries, check out our infographic to learn more.

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Calling all 🌳 lovers! A new exhibit at Brooklyn Botanic Garden showcases the “Power of Trees”. Trees tend to exist in the background of our lives, not paid much attention to until we need some shade or a place to hide from the rain. But trees sustain life, from absorbing pollution to providing oxygen to creating a home for birds. This new exhibition combining art and science will feature six site-specific sculptures by local artists, it opens on Saturday, June 17 and runs through October 22. 

A sneak peek of the featured exhibits includes a Climate Action Sticker Wall in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, showcasing climate commitments as stickers that can help foster civic engagement within the community. Another exhibit called “Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts” features six tree sculptures created by local BIPOC artists.

Explore the many benefits trees provide for our ecosystem and community. “Power of Trees” offers a socially inclusive feast for the senses, the mind, and the spirit.

Calling all 🌳 lovers! A new exhibit at Brooklyn Botanic Garden showcases the “Power of Trees”. Trees tend to exist in the background of our lives, not paid much attention to until we need some shade or a place to hide from the rain. But trees sustain life, from absorbing pollution to providing oxygen to creating a home for birds. This new exhibition combining art and science will feature six site-specific sculptures by local artists, it opens on Saturday, June 17 and runs through October 22. 

A sneak peek of the featured exhibits includes a Climate Action Sticker Wall in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy, showcasing climate commitments as stickers that can help foster civic engagement within the community. Another exhibit called “Branching Out: Trees as Community Hosts” features six tree sculptures created by local BIPOC artists.

Explore the many benefits trees provide for our ecosystem and community. “Power of Trees” offers a socially inclusive feast for the senses, the mind, and the spirit.

Celebrating International Compost Awareness Week. The chosen theme was a collaborative and international effort. International Compost Awareness Week - ICAW USA teamed up with (ICA) to select a topic based on a serious world-wide issue that every nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger. One of the initiatives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), is Zero Hunger: End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.  

How does compost help? By recycling organics into compost and using it on our farmlands, we create healthy soils that produce healthier food and higher yields. It also reduces the need for fertilizer and pesticides, improves water quality and conserves water, as well as stores carbon in soil - helping to reduce climate change. Compost not only helps the environment but also helps to decrease food shortages experienced around the world. For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost! 

Also, congratulations to this year’s winner of the ICAW 2023 Poster Contest, Jun Qi Tan...👏👏👏

Happy Earth Day 🌎!!

It’s been so exciting to see organic recycling gain momentum across the country! Check out these cities/states that have passed legislation…Hooray! ♻️🍎🥦🍌🍆

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Everyone’s actions can make a difference.

Happy International Women's Day! Celebrating smart, strong, inspirational women. May we know them, may we be them, may we raise them.

Did you know Americans throw away 25% more trash during the Thanksgiving to New Year's holiday period than any other time of year. The extra waste includes:
•food
•shopping bags
•packaging
•wrapping paper
•bows/ribbons
add up to an additional 1 million extra tons of trash going into landfills each week!

Wishing you a joyous holiday season. Everyone’s actions can make a difference. 🍽️🎉♻️🌎

Farmers markets are a great asset providing fresh nutritious food, supporting local farmers, and creating a hub for community connection. A special shoutout for , it started in 1976 and has grown exponentially! In peak season 140 regional farmers, fishers, and bakers sell their products to a dedicated legion of city dwellers.

From seed to plate to soil, they take pride in creating a sustainable local food system.

HAPPY EARTH HOUR! Join millions of people around the world and switch off your lights in support of nature and our planet on Saturday, March 26, 2022 at 8:30pm.

The theme of this year's Earth Hour is 'Shape Our Future'. It is a pivotal year for everyone to shape the world for the future generations by raising awareness about the damages to climate that are impacting our world today.

Lights out at 8:30pm, time to conserve energy!

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It’s the last day of the APEX 🛩 IFSA EXPO in Long Beach, California. My first time participating and I learned so much about the aviation industry! Thank you RMT Global for inviting me to be part of your booth.

First action step: Establish clear, measurable actions we can work on together to reduce single use plastic bags on flights. A. What are the tools that need to be put in place? B. Whom do we need to educate?
Wish us luck 🤞 it feels promising!

Tada! We are testing out new bag colors and could really use your help. Which color do you prefer 🤔A. Light Green/Black Print
B. Dark Green/White Print

It’s slowly but surely happening...we are so grateful to be back on press! Our compostable bags should be stocked and ready to ship out to customers by mid November 👍.

We have a lot of exciting news to share - but first, THIS batch on press is currently being made in the USA. We spent the last year testing different factories and finally decided to partner with this California factory that’s doing great things!

March 29, 2019 is the date this organics meeting took place at the NYPD Mounted Unit. YES, there is a horse stable on Manhattan’s west side! We discussed collecting horse manure in our compostable trash bags and diverting the waste into an aerobic digester. The goal was to create a pilot program that would show the effectiveness of the digester and also asses the economic value of alternative uses for the processed equine manure, whether it be reduced waste, compost, or as a bio-fuel.

It’s been 885 days since that original meeting. We are excited to report that we were awarded a contract to start this pilot project with Locard's as of yesterday 🥳!

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Can’t wait for NYC’s residential curbside organics program to return October 2021! Working PT from home, I forget which day to drop off our food scraps. Is this happening to anyone else?

NYC Multi-family homes, don’t forget your building must re-register for the brown bin-even if you had pickup service before. Click on website to receive instructions.

What a great end to a tough week! We finally had a chance to host our summer interns from at the office Company. I personally think we have the most diverse and talented group of software developers and I couldn't be more proud of their work.

We are proud to honor America’s New Holiday, !

Did you know our compostable bags break down in 180 days or less in the right compost environment? Here is one of our shopping bags decomposing in nature with a little help from a wiggler.

Fun fact:
Did you know worms eat food scraps, which become compost as they pass through the worm's body. This compost can then be used to grow plants, it’s called vermicompost, or worm compost.

Here at Commit to Green, we strive to be inclusive and welcoming to all identities. Happy Pride Month!

Meet our summer interns! We have a bright, talented and diverse group of software engineers we can't wait to collaborate with.

The is only a few days away! We are so thrilled to be a part of it. To celebrate, we wanted to share some great ways to start reducing your own . Have any other ? Let us know!