The City Council passed a bill on Thursday requiring New Yorkers to separate their food waste from regular trash, with mandatory composting coming to all five boroughs by next year.
The residential mandate will roll out borough by borough, starting with Brooklyn and Queens this October, followed by the Bronx and Staten Island in March 2024, and Manhattan that October.
The goal is to reduce the amount of organic waste the city sends to landfills, where it produces a particularly potent greenhouse gas called methane.****
kind of surprised they arent already doing that. will the compost then be used to fertilize the green spaces or what?
We have community composting, it’s pretty awesome. 3 garbage bins: recycling, organics, and trash. All get picked up weekly. The organics go to a municipal compost facility. The resulting compost is used in the city parks and landscaping and also bagged for sale at garden centers.
Ours, too, and its so cheap.
Good luck enforcing something like that.
In Germany this is already done in many places (e.g. Aachen). Additionally, it’s a social norm here, to the point that I don’t think that i know anyone who doesn’t compost.
