The city council signed a bill that will require New Yorkers to separate food scraps from yard waste in order to cut down the amount of garbage in landfills.
The City Council voted to require over 8 million New Yorkers to compost food waste. FOX 5 NY's Linda Schmidt has the details."Any of your kitchen scraps as you're cooking, as you're eating, anything that was food, is food gets put in a separate bin and that will have its own collection day."Council Member Sandy Nurse chairs the Council’s Sanitation Committee and co-sponsored a bill passed by the Council mandating all New Yorkers compost their food scraps.
"Plastics and metals are really confusing because there's so many different types. With food waste, food scraps, it's very clear. You got a bag of oranges, you got leftover meat, you got chicken scraps, you got eggshells, coffee grounds. All of that stuff it's very simple," Nurse said. "You take all of that stuff and put it into one bin." "It's an extra step, but it's not too much," a New Yorker said.
Some New Yorkers aren't sure if they are going to follow this new rule and Schmidt asked if people are really going to follow through.
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