By email: and, or on Twitter: and KATHY? Speaking at the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Threat Assessment and Management Summit and later at the Bay Ridge summer concert series. Got tips, suggestions or thoughts? Let us know. If this works, it could be expanded to other boroughs, but legislation is still pending in the City Council with a veto-proof majority of supporters that would require universal citywide compost collection. “This is by far the cheapest, the most efficient, the easiest for New Yorkers to use.” “We designed this program to be the last composting program that we roll out in New York City," Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. All large apartment buildings will be sent brown bins for composting without having to request them, while individual homeowners and those living in small buildings can request one or use their own container.
Participation won’t be mandatory, but a number of steps are in place to simplify the process and encourage composting. Now, Adams says he’s devised a system that will increase participation in organics recycling, offering collection service to all 2.2 million residents who live in Queens. Despite a campaign pledge, Mayor Adams cut funds for a planned expansion from his budget. Former Mayor Bill de Blasio nixed the city’s program due to a budget crunch early in the pandemic. A big culprit is all those egg shells, coffee grounds and other food and yard waste that make up a third of the city’s garbage stream.īut efforts to tackle that have hit one roadblock after another. That’s obvious enough from walking down the street, but the city is getting even further from its goal of zeroing out residential waste by 2030. Hoping to succeed where other mayors have failed, Eric Adams rolled out a new compost program that will cover all of Queens starting this fall.Īs POLITICO has documented, the city is pretty much covered in mounds of trash. It’s been a long time coming, but New York City says it’s finally going to do composting right.
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