'New York needs to make landscapes, not landfills. Right now we're letting all this waste go to waste, instead of composting it.'
A day after Mayor Eric Adams published plans to halt the expansion of the city’s curbside organics program, a state lawmaker introduced a bill Thursday that requires the city to create a composting collection service for all New York City homes.
“New York needs to make landscapes, not landfills,” Hoylman said in a statement. “Right now we’re letting all this waste go to waste, instead of composting it.” The Department of Sanitation had planned to roll out the scheme to more neighborhoods based on demand and signups by residents this year, but Mayor Adams’s preliminary budget proposal cuts funding for those efforts in order to save costs.so his team can come up with a better alternativeOrganics make up more than 30% of the residential waste stream in New York City and when dumped in landfills the scraps can emit the harmful greenhouse gas methane, contributing to climate change.
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