Reduce, reuse . . . repurpose!
One Queens politician has some creative ideas on how to make the most of the thousands of composting buckets the city is dumping on New Yorkers — as some of her colleagues in the City Council whine that it needs millions more in taxpayer dollars to fund the program.
“What better way to spend your taxpayer dollars than to put this ugly, disgusting thing on your counter so that you can collect your garbage scraps,” Queens GOP Councilwoman Vickie Paladino railed in a video on X after the city unloaded 150 of the plastic countertop buckets at her office.
“Luckily they have lots of other uses, because nobody is actually going to compost and we all know it,” she wrote. “So if you don’t want a bucket of rotting food garbage on your countertop feel free to use them for the beach or as little beer coolers or whatever.”…