NYC's universal composting off to slow start as many landlords don't offer bins

WNYC News

The city sanitation department’s rollout of curbside composting program is facing a rotten problem: Most New Yorkers are still throwing organics in the trash, and landlords of many large buildings haven’t bothered to set up bins allowing tenants to participate.

The city expanded the service to the Bronx, Manhattan and Staten Island last month, a year after it launched in Brooklyn and Queens. Now, nearly every New Yorker is required to separate food scraps from their regular trash and sort them in bins that are set out for collection on the same day as recycling.

But city data shows the program, which is still in its infancy, has diverted minimal compost away from landfills.