Budget cuts undertaken by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have put the city’s organic waste recycling program on life support, but some city officials and residents are scrambling to resuscitate it.
Antonio Reynoso, chairman of the City Council’s sanitation council, is preparing to introduce two bills aimed at breathing life into the city’s waning organics recycling effort. One of the proposals would add new drop-off sites for compostable material. The other would make organic waste recycling mandatory for NYC residents.
