Mayor Bloomberg did a lot to improve how the city’s Department of Sanitation operates. Now, Mayor de Blasio is taking on the other half of our sanitation system, the commercial…
While composting food waste is better that simply burying it in landfills, both techniques have their costs, and both involve a fundamental failure: The food could have been eaten.
Waste from New York’s businesses is not picked up by DSNY but by a industry of for-profit companies who, critics say, serve inefficient routes and treat their workers poorly.