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Friday Volunteer Day
Volunteer to help us with maintaining our community compost site! Tasks look different each week based on what the site needs most.
Date: October 2, 2026
Available Spaces: 3
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: October 5, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Friday Volunteer Day
Volunteer to help us with maintaining our community compost site! Tasks look different each week based on what the site needs most.
Date: October 9, 2026
Available Spaces: 5
Tour of Earth Matter!
Join us for a tour of Earth Matter to learn about the history and operations of our midsize community composting facility on Governors Island where we process up to 600 tons of material annually.
Date: October 9, 2026
Available Spaces: 13
Tuesday Sorting!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: October 13, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Friday Volunteer Day
Volunteer to help us with maintaining our community compost site! Tasks look different each week based on what the site needs most.
Date: October 16, 2026
Available Spaces: 6
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: October 19, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Friday Volunteer Day
Volunteer to help us with maintaining our community compost site! Tasks look different each week based on what the site needs most.
Date: October 23, 2026
Available Spaces: 7
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: October 26, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Friday Volunteer Day
Volunteer to help us with maintaining our community compost site! Tasks look different each week based on what the site needs most.
Date: October 30, 2026
Available Spaces: 7
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: November 2, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: November 9, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: November 16, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: November 23, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: November 30, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: December 7, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: December 14, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: December 21, 2026
Available Spaces: 10
Monday Madness: Compost Build at Earth Matter!
Join us for our weekly compost build! We will be sorting organics generated on-island (food scraps and compostable servicewear) and from our off-island partners including residential food scraps collected from the Lower East Side Ecology Center.
Date: December 28, 2026
Available Spaces: 10