Mayor Eric Adams is set to announce that the city will commit to a 20-month timeline to bring composting to all five boroughs. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – A decade after then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg co-opted a line from Star Trek to declare composting the “final recycling frontier”, New York City is finally poised to unveil plans to implement what it is calling the nation’s largest composting programme.
The announcement comes a month after the city paused a popular boroughwide composting programme in Queens, a move that sowed distress among the city’s avid band of food recyclers. Municipal composting took off in the United States in the 1990s after San Francisco became the first city to offer a major food scrap collection programme. It is now mandatory for residents in cities like San Francisco and Seattle, and Los Angeles just introduced a composting mandate with little fanfare.
In an interview Wednesday, Ms Tisch acknowledged that the city had not made enough progress since 2015 to “realistically believe that we will reach zero waste by 2030”. As part of the programme in Queens, which paused for the winter in December, collection times coincided with the pickup of recyclables. And residents did not have to individually opt in to the new service. The programme cost roughly US$2 million , the department said.
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