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City on the Edge: Climate Change and New York City

As NYC Rolls Out Mandatory Composting, Will New Yorkers Comply?

The Big Apple’s city-wide curbside composting program has officially made its way to Brooklyn. The borough is the second after Queens to receive the service, with the rest of the city to follow by October of next year—when enforcement of the rules around separating food waste will begin, too.

But recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting New Yorkers to comply with yet another set of rules could be an uphill battle, experts say.

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