NYC Implements Mandatory Composting for Residents.

The New York City Council has passed a bill requiring residents to separate their food waste from regular trash, with mandatory composting coming to all five boroughs by next year. The goal is to reduce the amount of organic waste the city sends to landfills, where it produces a particularly potent greenhouse gas called methane. The composting mandate encompasses all New York City residents, in buildings big or small, with the exception of the roughly 400,000 New Yorkers who live in public housing.