Exclusive | NYC pol trashes city for pushing disgusting compost pails: Use as beer coolers

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.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.”The mini pails are to collect food waste in the kitchen before putting it at the curb in yet another designated new bin or taking it for drop-off.“If people want to use them for what they’re meant for, that’s fine,” Paladino told The Post.“But our little composting bins have got 101 uses.”“My kids will love this for the playground sprinkler!” one mom joked on X.“I need a few of those for my classroom to store supplies in,” a teacher chimed in.Constituents lined up down the block to get their pail, Paladino said, some planning to use it for gardening and BBQ tools this summer.One user on X noted that the cheap-looking buckets looked like they were ordered off the Chinese e-commerce site Temu.But the buckets, which are emblazoned with the city Department of Sanitation’s composting website, are from the company Orbis, which the city is paying a whopping $9.7 million to provide “waste bins [and] organic collection,” records show.The same Orbis bins go for about $19 from Home Depot and Amazon, bringing the worth of the 150 dropped off at each of the 51 council members’ offices to an estimated $...