Environmental groups raised concerns during a hearing last week, saying using plastic bags for compost undermines the spirit of the city's program.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.To get more New Yorkers to compost, the city plans to allow residents to put their yard waste on the curb in clear plastic bags — a move that some environmental advocates say undermines the spirit of the program.
Rhonda Keyser of the Brooklyn Solid Waste Advisory Board urged the city to reduce or eliminate plastic bag usage in the program as soon as possible. “While food waste must be in a sealed bin to keep rats out, if residents are disposing only of yard waste, they are free to put it in bags, just as many of them already do,” he said in a statement Monday, adding the yard waste approach is modeled after other major cities like San Francisco and Toronto.
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