The last thing New Yorkers want to think about is where their trash goes. But with the mayor’s pledge to send zero waste to landfills by 2030, creative new solutions to waste are being tested and they are, dare we say, fascinating.

One of these creative solutions, thriving in North Brooklyn, is Waste Management’s (WM) Certified Organics Recycling, more commonly known as CORe.

CORe deals with New York’s food waste, which accounts for about 34 percent of New York’s waste stream. That’s thousands of tons of food getting thrown away every day. “With food waste, sending it to landfills is costly, energy-consuming and it’s just bad for emissions and from all angles,” Aycan Kaptaner, WM’s Community and Government Relations Manager, told the Bushwick Daily.