New York City Residents Will Soon Have to Compost Their Food Scraps
Although some experts believe that making the program mandatory is key to its financial sustainability, the mayor’s administration believes that New Yorkers need time to adjust to a new regimen. It is unclear if Mr. Adams will sign the bill, but it appears to have enough support to override a mayoral veto.
The Council also moved to require the city to establish e-waste recycling and organics collection centers in each borough and to codify its goal to eliminate all recyclables and organic matter from its waste stream by 2030.
“We have a supermajority on all of the bills,” said Sandy Nurse, the councilwoman who chairs the Sanitation Committee and is one of three lead sponsors of the legislative package. “Whether or not the administration wants these bills to happen is irrelevant. They’re happening.”
A spokesman for the mayor declined to comment.
The success of the Council’s mandate will depend on the Sanitation Department’s effective delivery of the program. But the city’s sanitation commissioner, Jessica Tisch, declined to comment directly on the Council’s legislative package, instead trumpeting her own department’s voluntary program as “easy, no drama, focused on service.”
Source: The New York Times
