Revitalize Our Soil Through Compost Innovation

WeRadiate exists as a collective of socially and environmentally conscious individuals with an aim to revitalize our soils. This funding allows our team to test new compost-enabled technology in urban agricultural settings. By modernizing compost technology, we can create healthier, safer, and higher-quality standards of compost (a nutrient-rich, natural fertilizer). Our technology monitors important data so composters can conveniently track the health of their system anytime. Implementation will occur at site specific partner locations in the Lower East Side area including the East Side Outside Community Garden.

These initial steps will allow the compost community to enhance data tracking & reporting in an easier manner allowing the process of composting (food scrap recycling) to occur in a quicker and more effective approach.

• Hardware procurement and configuration of handheld compost sensor technology 
• Software development and data visualization of important compost metrics
• On-site testing at various collaborative compost systems 
• Continuation of field testing to ensure quality assurance and pathogen reduction
• Implementation at site specific partner locations 
• On-going site monitoring with compost partners

Now we invite you to join our movement and be part of the generation looking out for our future!

WHY compost?

Waste Reduction: Instead of throwing our nutritious food scraps into landfill, we can create healthy natural fertilizer for our local parks, gardens, & plants.

Healthy Living: We can have have cleaner air and healthier minds by composting locally due to a reduction in garbage trucks criss-crossing our streets releasing harmful emissions.

Your Wallet: NYC spends $400 million dollars to move our trash each year. Let’s imagine if we were to reinvest and reallocate this amount of money into green jobs & local employment

Compost can create nutritious higher-quality fruits and vegetables, remediate contaminated land, contribute to significant cost savings to municipalities while also enhancing economic opportunities for local green job development. To enhance this process of innovation, we’ve collaborated with community gardens, students, and even with the NYC Compost Project.