New Yorkers may soon have to separate their food scraps for composting if Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way.
The New York Times says the Bloomberg administration plans to begin collecting food scraps across the city after recent pilot programs showed high levels of participation.
Deputy Mayor Caswell Holloway tells the newspaper the administration will shortly announce that it is hiring a composting plant to handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year. That’s about 10 percent of the city’s residential food waste.
The program will initially be voluntary, but officials say they predict it will become mandatory in the next few years.
New Yorkers who do not separate their food scraps could face fines.
(AP)
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The man is out of control and completely off his rocker
So lets see, it will stink so bad that people cannot walk the streets on garbage collection days (especially in the summer) and the wild animals that currently rip apart my garbage will have a blast making an even bigger mess that I will have to clean up or face another fine. This is all about money – the more ways they have to fine the people the better for them.
Ugh
They have this sort of thing in Belgium. Let me tell you IT’S BAD!!!
The food scraps pile up and the stench is unbearable. The mess and the leakage is terrible!! Imagine Erev Pesach when you have to hoard these things until garbage pickup. It’s not a pretty site.
I only have two words for the Mayor, HELL NO!
Yup, I think you got that right, “Working On It.”
Anyone who wants to make his own compost garden on his own property can perhaps get a tax rebate or some such incentive. That might be ok…I thought all garbage cans were being removed from subway stations and parks to deter rats (who so far don’t pay taxes, but ought to, considering they currently freeload in this city and far out-populate the rest of us!).. Now what!!! What next!!!