(NYC) City to Roll Out A Recycling Plan For Food Waste
Source: NY Times
By MIREYA NAVARRO
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who has tried to curb soda consumption, ban smoking in parks and encourage bike riding, is taking on a new cause: requiring New Yorkers to separate their food scraps for composting.
Dozens of smaller cities, including San Francisco and Seattle, have adopted rules that mandate recycling of food waste from homes, but sanitation officials in New York had long considered the city too dense and vertically structured for such a policy to succeed.
Recent pilot programs in the city, though, have shown an unexpectedly high level of participation, officials said. As a result, the Bloomberg administration is rolling out an ambitious plan to begin collecting food scraps across the city, according to Caswell F. Holloway IV, a deputy mayor.
The administration plans to announce shortly that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year. That amount would represent about 10 percent of the citys residential food waste.
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Benjamin Norman for The New York Times
Maxie Santiago, a special-education teaching assistant who lives on the sixth floor of the Helena, prepared to empty his food scraps into a collection bin.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)PDJane
(10,103 posts)We put food scraps into a separate bin, papers into another, drugs go back to the drug store, batteries back to a collection point, along with fluorescent bulbs....cans, bottles, keurig pods, bags, candy wrappers, plastic of all sorts.....that's how it is. You get used to it.
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)also needs to start to collect all plastics, not just #1 and #2 plastics.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)expanded the kind of plastics accepted in recycling.
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)How did that one slip by me?
AllyCat
(16,188 posts)good items for compost. I've even brought home compostables from work to add to our pile. You can NEVER have enough it seems.
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)I would do it. but I have a very small backyard and no real room for it. I also do not have a lawn to get clippings for it.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)you dispose of compostable waste in bins and the city picks them up, weekly or whatever the schedule is.
you don't compost yourself.
sabbat hunter
(6,829 posts)but I would love to have my own compost bin. It would mean I had a big backyard for gardening, tree planting.
petronius
(26,602 posts)well as recycling pick-up: I was really surprised at the variety of materials that could go into the composting, and amazed at how little actual trash there really was (minus the compost-able and the recyclable)...