New York City's mandatory residential curbside compositing program is barely two weeks old, but it's already a smashing success. Since April 1, when the Sanitation Department started issuing fines for failing to compost, DSNY has picked up a record-breaking 6.4 million pounds of organic matter.
"After 12 years of treating composting like a niche program, it took just two weeks of regular operations to hit a record amount of food waste and yard scraps kept out of landfills," Acting DSNY Commissioner Javier Lojan told the Post, in a story touting the program's progress on Wednesday.
But compost enforcement apparently has one powerful enemy in City Hall: First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro.
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