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.****
Good luck enforcing something like that.
There are plenty of places where grrenbin compositing is mandatory. It’s not enforced.
The vast majority of people do it anyway, because most people are ok with following basic rules.
Plus, it keeps critters out of the garbage.
Yeah, we have it where I live. Not enforced per se, but trash pickup is every two weeks where recycling and compost is every week. Haven’t had a problem with it.
Yeah that’s our municipality’s approach too. Combine that with garbage bag limits and it is in your best interest to use the green bin as much as possible.
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.