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As NYC Rolls Out Mandatory Composting, Will New Yorkers Comply?

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    Posted October 12, 2023 at 12:46 am

    Thank you for providing such useful information. I’ve been having trouble coming up with many questions about this topic. I’ll stick with you!

  • KATHRYN BARNIER
    Posted October 12, 2023 at 10:22 am

    I do composting at home because I have a garden that I can fertilize. However, I do not include meat or fish products in my bin in order to deter rats and squirrels. How would this be handled by the city? Where would I put animal waste substances?
    Also, I think that giving children in a household the “job’ of doing the composting could be fun for them and teach them about reusing our garbage.

    • Warren
      Posted October 17, 2023 at 12:31 am

      City composting is extremely effective. Unlike the composting at the farmers’ markets, this program can handle all organic matter, including meat and fish products.

  • Scott Baker
    Posted October 12, 2023 at 10:41 am

    Organic waste recycling won’t work, and for reasons that go beyond why current recycling of plastics, paper and metal don’t work very well.
    Organic waste is waste that rots, stinks, and attracts rats and roaches if left in any kind of indoor halfway station like a garbage room vestibule. Unlike current non-organic waste, which can be relatively easily separated at home or in the garbage room of a multi-family building, there is no practical way to store organic waste at home. Plastic bags are not being given out for free anymore, and paper is obviously unsuitable to a semi-liquid broth of organic waste. And who wants to keep THAT in their freezer?? Anywhere else and it’ll just be a super stinky garbage can that people can’t wait to throw down the chute.

    The real solution to garbage of all kinds is Plasma Gasification, though something must be done to control the dioxin gases. The remaining slag at the bottom of the arc-burning business end – hotter than the surface of the sun! – can be recycled as valuable metals. The energy released from the process can make a PG plant self-powering. Several sites around the world already do this and it’s the wave of the future, not the kludge of the past.

    • Susan Crawford
      Posted October 19, 2023 at 9:20 am

      Scott you seem to be making a lot of assumptions about composting. We had it in our building until Mayor Adams cancelled curbside composting in most of Manhattan. It was collected three times a week, gave off no smell in the basement between pickups, and the bins have a locked lid, so are not accessible to rats and mice. We had a high participation rate in our building of 60 units, filling three bins between pickups.

      Once sidewalk composting was in place, and with all the other recycling I do, I was putting only a half-full paper bag of refuse into our regular garbage per week.

  • Jimmy B
    Posted October 12, 2023 at 9:07 pm

    There have been many occasions; especially on rainy days, where black soldier fly larvae would crawl out of the bin and scale up the aluminum siding of the house. With only a once a week pickup, with our pickup on Mondays which are sometimes holidays, with so many missed pickups, with so many people walking by and just tossing all of their crap into our bins, this peovram.just create more of a headache for us.

  • MARTIN N McDONAGH
    Posted October 13, 2023 at 12:28 pm

    How come my compost bucket gets dumped in the back of the regular trash trucks?

  • Ryan J
    Posted October 13, 2023 at 9:31 pm

    The statement “ But Champeny says those fines…won’t be enough of an incentive to get some people on board.” is misleading as those who need to perform the separation and composting are not those who will pay the fine. There is no flyer and education program out there that will get some tenants to comply as they are either incompetent or fee it is not their responsibility to separate and participate. People fail to separate plastic with paper and just throw a mixed bag wherever it suits them.

  • B. Thomas
    Posted November 12, 2023 at 8:54 am

    g is just another ploy by NYC and the DSNY to potentially make money via fines for those that do not adhere to the mandate. Composting adds more work to city residents. People have to separate their garbage for recycling, use different color bags for plastic, glass, paper etc. They now have to put their regular trash out after 8pm curbside, before 8pm trash must be in a container. This is allegedly to cut down on rats, well the city must think residents are fools. Putting trash out after 8pm, will not stop rats, collection of trash doesn’t begin until the next day many times just prior to noon. How is that going to stop rats?. NYC and the DSNY are out of control. This is just a money making scheme because they know many will not comply with all these new rules. NYC needs a new Mayor, DSNY Commissioner, and an all new City Council.

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