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Mandatory NYC food separation starts next
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Posted By: Hazymac, 3/28/2025 10:30:32 AM

New York City's waste reduction efforts will commence a new phase next week, as the city's sanitation agency will begin enforcing a law-mandated composting program with fines. Starting April 1, residents will have to separate food waste from trash or risk receiving a $25 fine from the Department of Sanitation. While mandatory composting became effecting in October 2024, the law passed by City Council established a warning period until April 2025. What are the food separation rules? Sanitation officials say they have deliberately kept the rules simple for residents. All food, yard and food-soiled paper waste must be set out in a bin on recycling day. What should be separated? Education materials developed by

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My mentor Mr. Buckley used to call NYC "Fun City." Here's more fun.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 3/28/2025 10:38:49 AM (No. 1922553)
NYC always had a garbage problem and it's about to get much larger.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 3/28/2025 10:41:05 AM (No. 1922555)
I hear they are supposed to be doing tjs in my old home town. Imagine the fun the big dogs have knockimg these bins over when they smell "FOOD!" ? God bless the person who invented the garbage disposer...
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Reply 3 - Posted by: bpl40 3/28/2025 10:46:23 AM (No. 1922559)
If there is any way to separate Patriots from the America hating garbage there, I am all for it.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: WWIIDaughter 3/28/2025 10:48:52 AM (No. 1922561)
This s what Cass Sunstein calls the "Nudge"-a subliminal push towards doing what the WEF elites want the rest of to believe. It makes people do an activity that is so stupid and laborious that they need to justify it. A fine isn't enough. Instead, the best way is to believe that you're doing something important: Saving the Planet! People get to virtue signal, save a little money and tell themselves they're part of something important. The fact that the time spent playing with the garbage also takes time away from things the elites think is unimportant, like caring for your own family is a bonus for the elites who have servants to do the garbage and who believe that the normal family is a threat to their power.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 3/28/2025 10:49:46 AM (No. 1922563)
Leftists have such stupid, stupid notions and just LOVE ordering people around to satisfy their brainless fantasies. It's garbage, it goes into a landfill. ALL of it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DougTN 3/28/2025 11:01:42 AM (No. 1922578)
Wonder how many make work jobs this will make to enforce this edict? The trick with stuff like this is always enforcement. Beware of the Trash Police!
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Reply 7 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 3/28/2025 11:05:35 AM (No. 1922579)
Just another boondoggle. And way to tax and control people, Why not do something about crazy dangerous loons taking dumps on the subway first?
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Venturer 3/28/2025 11:09:57 AM (No. 1922585)
What's the chances of this working.? O
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Reply 9 - Posted by: VietVet68 3/28/2025 11:11:07 AM (No. 1922588)
Blue cities/states never run out of new ways to squeeze more money out of their citizens. It's too bad most voters in these cities are too dumb to change their voting habits.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: mc squared 3/28/2025 11:11:31 AM (No. 1922589)
In multi-unit apartments, is the caretaker or superintendent supposed to do the sorting? Bet'cha it doesn't happen in city owned buildings.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Sorosisbehindit 3/28/2025 11:13:55 AM (No. 1922592)
Enjoy voting for liberals who order you to sort trash.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 3/28/2025 11:18:11 AM (No. 1922597)
In other news, NYC is overrun with rats.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: earlybird 3/28/2025 11:20:14 AM (No. 1922599)
People will be going back to what our family did when I was a kid. My Dad was in charge of garbage. Everything collected m the thing in the sink, everything scraped out of pots and off of dishes, coffee grounds, used napkins, foil, waxed paper, the works, went onto sheets of newspaper ad Dad trolled them into a bundle which went into one trash can where he also put the clippings when he mowed the lawn with an old-fashioned lawn mower. Regular paper trash went into a wonderful incinerator in our backyard that he fired up about once a week.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: ladydawgfan 3/28/2025 11:20:26 AM (No. 1922600)
I'd do one of three things: get a garbage disposal, get a potbelly pig to eat leftovers or MOVE!! Tyrants gotta tyrant!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: FL_Absentee_Voter 3/28/2025 12:33:31 PM (No. 1922636)
My son lives in a building with "more than nine units" where everything goes down trash chutes - one per floor. Curious to see how this gets handled.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: danu 3/28/2025 12:54:37 PM (No. 1922650)
nyc--still stuck in stupidville. one of the ancient tales i was told about nyc was--the garbage strikes. the populace struck back: by wrapping uncollected trash in christmas paper and bows. it was piled high in the back seat of the car....until the thieves could no longer resist. they stole the beautifully-wrapped garbage, and took it home.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: Ashley Brenton 3/28/2025 1:23:26 PM (No. 1922664)
Just judging from my stroll down Broadway, whose garbage bags are whose?
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Reply 18 - Posted by: Highstick 3/28/2025 1:28:33 PM (No. 1922666)
NY's trash police will search bags for maybe a week. However the rats will now have a fabulous new smorgasbord on which to feast. Good luck New Yorkers...so glad I left you behind many years ago
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Reply 19 - Posted by: mossley 3/28/2025 1:39:43 PM (No. 1922670)
I have to admit, it's going to be fun watching them try to enforce this. Are they going to pay people to sort through all the garbage in NYC? If not, how do they expect to find food? Say they do find a banana peel in an apartment building's trash. How are you going to track down to whom the peel belonged? I know if it were me, I'd toss the peel by itself and not with any mail or other items that were mine. How are they going to prove in court that the person charged actually threw it away? Again, if it were me, I'd say it was one of the numerous homeless people who tossed it there. Is the city going to run DNA tests? This is going to be a boondoggle.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: jdano 3/28/2025 3:39:08 PM (No. 1922706)
More illegal dumping to ensue, as fed up citizens try to avoid the fines.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: mc squared 3/28/2025 3:58:49 PM (No. 1922710)
Disposals haven't been allowed in NYC for as long as I remember.
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Reply 22 - Posted by: mifla 3/29/2025 6:30:58 AM (No. 1922888)
Nothing more than a revenue generating scheme disguised as virtue signaling. Voters in blue states need professional help.
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