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Composting has been a part of some NYC residents' lives for over a decade now, but in 2022 the city began to roll out a mandatory program. After the program recently reached all five boroughs, the Department of Sanitation will start handing out fines for those who are not composting properly, but these fines will be placed on the building and not the tenants. Mendte in the Morning sent WOR Reporter Natalie Migliore out on the street to talk to the people of NYC about the composting program.
“I’m a big composter but I think it’s terrible that the city is making the supers of the buildings go through people’s trash,” one tenant told Migliore. “We shouldn’t have to pay the price for the tenants; we have told them when they move in, we have told them the principle of the recycling,” one landlord said.
Another citizen only cared about one potential outcome from the new initiative: “If it maintains the rats, then I’m all for it.”
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