Key Points
There's a moment setting out on the ferry from Manhattan's South Street to Governors Island that the receding skyline is all-consuming..
In 2007, this largely undeveloped southern part of the island was reimagined as more than just recreational space, with the Trust seeing it as an opportunity "to demonstrate to the whole city, and hopefully to the world, how we can develop urban environments in a much more sustainable and adaptable way"...
Eleven years after British troops withdrew at the end of the American Revolution in 1783, the New York government started fortifying the harbour by constructing three forts on the Island Fort Jay, Castle Williams and the South Battery that helped deter a British invasion in the War of 1812..
All food partners are required to use compostable serviceware, for example, which Newman said "makes a big difference" towards the island reaching its zero-waste goal...
The not-for-profit organisation Earth Matter NY is the Trust's partner in Zero Waste Island, picking up all organic waste including the compostable serviceware and food scraps along with landscape materials from the grounds crews and turning it into compost for the island's gardens..
