The sanitation department is reminding New Yorkers about what can — and what cannot — be composted in the city’s new program.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.In New York City, residents can put meat scraps and bones into compost bins, but not their dead pets. They can compost used paper plates, but not kitty litter.
“Our program and our processing facilities are designed for residential food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard trimmings, and not intended for materials that fall outside of these categories, including animal waste and dead pets or street animals,” said Vincent Gragnani, a spokesperson for the department.
Sanitation officials said they want to keep germs spread by feces and carcasses out of the city’s compost. Gragnani said the policy makes processing compost “safer for all involved under the current guidelines.”But dead pets and animals aren’t allowed. A long-standing “Sustained heat over a period of time generally kills these pathogens, and that heat is generated internally by the composting process,” he said.
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