composting

The City Council is requiring parks in each borough to add new composting sites.

Sanitation department officials have argued that community composting sites are only for the “truest of true believers” as the city rolls out curbside composting bins at residential buildings.

The sanitation department says data shows the boroughwide program is hugely popular with New Yorkers.

Crews picked up 5.7 million pounds of organic waste in Queens during the first six weeks of the program from Oct. 3 to Nov. 12.

This time they think it might really work

Mayor Eric Adams has suspended the expansion of residential composting programs.

The mayor said he would expand collection of food and yard scraps when he was running. Now he's cutting the city's collection program.

The pilot program has sparked confusion from some New Yorkers and earned mixed reviews from sustainability experts.

Buildings must opt-in to the program, and anyone who didn’t have curbside pickup before the pandemic still won’t.

By 2017, the program was serving 300,000 households, 722 schools, agencies and institutions, and 80 drop-off points. In 2019, the city collected 50,000 tons of compostables from curbside service alone. What happened?