Boro-Wide Recycling Corp.
Maspeth, NY 718-416-1656
According to an article in the New York Times New York is preparing to create an ambitious plan to encourage residents and businesses to separate their food waste from other trash. This will be initiated voluntarily at first, as they do with their paper, metal and plastics. Mayor Bloomberg recently announced that the city will expand its pilot program for food waste recycling, in an effort to catch up to the 180 cities and local governments that already offer curbside pickup of food scraps. Some of the most determined communities are moving toward less frequent garbage collection as they steer residents away from the conventional black trash bin. San Francisco has already seen some success with food waste recycling which started on a voluntary basis but became mandatory in 2009. They gave their citizens an incentive, by charging for trash pick up but not for recyclables. Maybe New York will do something similar.
Mayor Bloomberg announced some of the details of the planned expansion of the pilot food waste recycling program which is already taking place in schools, residences in Staten Island and select high-rises in Manhattan. He also stated that food waste will be collected in neighborhoods in Brooklyn this Fall and some neighborhoods in the Bronx by the Spring.
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