New York City to start curbside composting for all residents

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The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced plans to expand the city's capacity to convert food waste into compost through hassle-free curbside composting.

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00:00 We've got to re-compost this.

00:02 [LAUGHTER]

00:05 And by October of this year, every single New Yorker

00:09 on every block and every borough will have access to hassle-free

00:14 curbside composting.

00:16 It's an amazing achievement that we didn't think we would be able to pull off

00:21 because of the failures in the past, but we knew we could get it done,

00:25 and under this commission, we got it done.

00:27 It pushed back on the roading problem we're having in the city.

00:32 We're keeping methane out of our atmosphere,

00:35 and we are putting our food and yard waste to beneficial use

00:39 to clean our environment, and it's about how do we find smart,

00:44 productive ways of accomplishing this task.

00:47 So we can turn our food trash into what the commission always states,

00:50 into treasure, treasure that can be used in a productive way.

00:54 We're focused on the fact that our city produces 24 million pounds

01:00 of residential waste each day, and a third of it,

01:04 a third of the 24 million is food waste.

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