Mandatory Composting in New York? It Could Happen A proposal would make organic waste recycling available to all, then eventually require it. Critics say it would be expensive.

New York Times ^ | March 12, 2020 | Anne Barnard

[Romans Nine]

I vote for mandatory composting toilets in city hall. The five gallon bucket homemade style.

[cweese]

"Yeah. That won’t draw any bugs....."

The City of Austin dropped off small green composting bins for every resident last fall. I suspect once the hot temps arrive these bins are going to be swarming with pestilence of all kinds.

[Wuli]

That’s right, that’s all a crowded big city needs (to spread disease) is city-wide composting!!!!

New York City rats, already in the millions, will become the largest population in the city, outnumbering the people many times over. (Do you really think that with their sense of smell and smarts they will not figure out how to get in the bins with the organic waste??)

Then you have the matter of how the matter in the landfill eventually gets broken down. THAT is a process that organic waste contributes to, and without that organic waste what is put in the landfill will be intact for a longer time. Yes, organic waste decomposition in a landfill does create methane, but modern methods have been devised to trap the methane being exhaled from a landfill.

[Bonemaker]

“...The City Council speaker is calling for organic waste recycling...”

How about a huge load of horse “organic waste” on your driveway schmuck?

[hal ogen]

Leftists are lunatics. The only way this might be positive for society would be if leftists were thrown into the composting mass.