This is how your gnawed apple cores and greasy pizza boxes get crushed into compost
The Mamdani administration has quietly resumed slapping New Yorkers with hefty fines for tossing food scraps in the trash instead of the compost, The Post has learned. The Sanitation Department has issued 516 summonses so far this year – ending a temporary enforcement pause on the composting mandate thatSummons range from $25 for first offenders who own small homes — but could rise to as much as $300 for repeat offenders who own buildings with more than eight units.
NYC trash set to pile up next to mountains of snow with ‘normal’ collection stalled till next weekThe 516 tickets are more than 13 times the amount that were doled out from May to December in 2025, when Adams decided to only penalize properties that repeatedly failed to separate their food scraps from their regular trash, records show. DSNY issued a whopping 42,844 compost-related warnings from April through December, compared to just four so far this year, records show.Staten Island councilmembers David Carr, Frank Morano and Kamila Hanks penned a letter to the Department of Transportation this week saying that while they support the program, they believe fines“The current enforcement approach risks penalizing residents who have not yet received adequate notice, education or guidance about how the program works,” the bipartisan trio wrote.Record amounts of food scraps was collected and transformed into compost when the mandate first went into effect last year.The politicians asked for city to instead ramp up education outreach, including confirmation that the trash separation would be well worth the headache. The DSNY started enforcement with a bang last April, issuing 4,339 fines that month before Adams – who was then flirting with a re-election bid – opted to temporarily roll back enforcement following widespread anger and confusion over the guidelines. Landlords and property managers decried the mandate as unsustainable, arguing that it would force their staff to dumpster-dive to separate the food scraps that their tenants — benefiting from the anonymity granted by trash chutes — declined to sort.In its first week, the program collected 3.8 million pounds of food scraps — equal in weight to eight and a half Statues of Liberty.Iran makes chilling threat to target tourist sites worldwide -- as spring break kicks off in USCharles GasparinoBobbi Brown says she created a ‘better lip gloss’ that ‘anyone can wear’ — and shoppers agreeHow ‘loner’ Barron Trump differs from dad Donald, siblings as he celebrates 20th birthdayChristopher SadowskiRecord amounts of food scraps was collected and transformed into compost when the mandate first went into effect last year. Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Beauty in Black’ Season 2 Part 2 on Netflix, A Surprisingly Dull Continuation of the Tyler Perry Series
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