Composting on the Chopping Block in Mayor Adams’s Budget
The New York Times
Mr. Adams wants to suspend the expansion of New York’s composting program, but experts say the program is crucial to the city’s climate targets.
Rotten-tomato reviews were perhaps inevitable after Mayor Eric Adams proposed across-the-board 3 percent budget cuts, and some of the earliest and loudest are about actual decomposing vegetables.
Supporters of composting are furious over the plan to suspend the expansion of New York’s long-troubled program to recycle food scraps.
Mr. Adams promised during his campaign to expand curbside composting services to every city neighborhood, a goal predecessorBill de Blasio failed to reach. Methane from organic waste was “destroying our environment and speeding climate change,” Mr. de Blasio’s environmental platform stated, pledging to pay for the expansion through deals with private contractors.
