Pols Demand Mayor Relaunch Curbside Organics Collection (New York, Red Hook: house, neighborhood)

[Aeran]

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/pols-d...ompost-return/

Mayor Bill de Blasio must bring back the city’s dormant curbside food scraps pickup and composting programs, political candidates and environmentalists demanded in Red Hook Wednesday.

“Curbside organics is essential service, we cannot afford to go backwards, go slowly, or continue to perpetrate environmental injustice,” said mayoral candidate and former Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia at the Columbia Street Farm on April 21. “The current mayor’s decision to cut curbside organics recycling was a mistake that set us back at a critical moment and demonstrates a lack of long-term commitment to the fight against climate change — it must be reversed.”

[Aeran]

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/city-r...yor-de-blasio/

Eco-friendly New Yorkers can rejoice, as the city will restart its curbside composting pickup program this fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.

“We will be resuming our curbside composting program in New York City,” said de Blasio at his April 22 press briefing. “It is coming back, it was on hold during COVID, but now, thankfully we have the resources to bring curbside composting back.”

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“Homeowners and buildings in community districts that were previously eligible for curbside pickup last year will have to re-enroll through an online portal that launches in August, said the city’s trash czar.”

That makes no sense unless they are making an organics only pickup. My neighborhood had organics collection and we never had to enroll, the same garbage truck collected trash on one side and organics on the other side. I doubt the driver will check house numbers to see who enrolled and who didn’t. If the organics are in the proper container and labeled why wouldn’t they just take them regardless if you enrolled?