Dena Robins got hooked on composting after speaking with NYC Compost Project reps at a recent farmers’ market in the Bronx.
Robins, who grew up in the Patterson Houses during the 1960s, recalled the pollution pumped out by the trash incinerators in the Mott Haven community.
“The cinders used to go into your eyes during the daytime,” said Robins, who now lives in Williamsbridge. “It was all unsanitary and polluting.”
The Wishing Well community garden in the South Bronx soon will install a new toilet friendly to the environment but with a twist – the waste will be composted, and will end up a few feet away in plant and vegetable beds tended by students from nearby Public School 333.
Not everyone is thrilled about the cutting-edge composting toilet planned for Rev. James A. Polite Ave.: One garden volunteer doesn’t want schoolchildren using “human manure” – and some scientists say the fertilizer could be deadly.
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