Beginning October, New York City requires residents to compost their food scraps, with enforcement beginning Tuesday, including fines for noncompliance. This should be managed by maintenance staff in apartment buildings, leading to complaints from landlords who argue it unfairly burdens their workers. Critics express concerns about making maintenance staff sort through tenants' waste and question the management of compost bins. Sanitation officials defend the policy, citing it as part of a broader initiative aimed at reducing rat populations and improving waste management.
Burgos has been protesting the composting mandate since before it went into effect in October as part of the Sanitation Department's ongoing war on rats, warning that the 'level of anonymity' in apartment buildings means the onus for sorting compost will fall on building management.
We don't think that forcing hard-working building supers to be elbow-deep sorting through tenants' garbage - turning building maintenance into a daily dumpster dive - is where the government should be focusing their energy and resources right now,
The city has tossed us a mess without gloves.
Every building in NYC handles trash differently, but for decades they have ALL been required to sort their recyclables - and now they are required to sort their compostable material as well.
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