 K-Rot is a community compost project powered by youth who collect food scraps by bike and process it into compost at our site in Bushwick, Brooklyn. We divert between 1,500 and 2,500 pounds of food waste from the landfill. K-Rot started, there were no public drop-off options, there was no curbside collection programs happening in our communities. A youth rider for example on a Sunday will go out, they'll collect from 20 different households and then they'll bring it back to either one of our partner garden sites or our site and there they'll process it. Food waste like many other issues in New York City means that we're really disconnected from where our waste goes and so the act of composting creates so much awareness for individual New Yorkers of like how much food waste am I actually throwing to the trash or disposing. For black and brown communities in New York City we usually find higher concentrations of waste and less access to fresh high-quality food. So with composting we're helping to deal with our waste in a way that doesn't harm our communities and also creating a finished product that helps grow super nutrient-rich food. New York City over a third of our residential waste stream goes to landfills and so from the start where it's trucked through low income communities of color to waste transfer stations and then even taken outside of New York City to landfills that are also based right by communities of color predominantly black folks increasing a lot of like the local air pollution for those communities. BKRaw is an active example of climate and environmental justice. We are creating fresh air, clean soils, clean water and protecting our environment and our communities right to live in a right way with the lands. It's been a joy to work with new workers and see their transformation and learning how we can responsibly manage our waste and really seeing them moving up on leadership. It's just amazing to see how their eyes awaken to a lot of the environmental and climate injustices that are in our communities and how they can be part of the solution. One of the most inspiring things about BKRaw thinking in a city context is showing how within a city we can actively work together as a community uplifting youth leadership to transform the relationship that we have with the earth to something that is regenerative. BKRaw represents a closed loop model in which the job opportunities stay local. The food waste we're dealing with in a local way and all of the compost that's produced goes back to feed the earth and feed our communities as well.