New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Commissioner Jessica Tisch announced a recommitment to a curbside composting program in all five boroughs.
Over the next 20 months, Mayor Adams announced a plan for weekly collection of compostable material that will become an automatic, guaranteed, free, year-round service for every single resident across all five boroughs. This will be the first curbside composting program to reach 100 percent coverage citywide, providing residents with simple, universal weekly collection of leaf and yard waste, food scraps, and food-soiled paper products.
Unlike past composting programs, there will be no sign-up required for this new program. According to the plan, Residents will simply set out anything from their kitchen or their garden in a separate bin on their recycling day and DSNY will pick up those materials to turn them into usable compost or clean, renewable energy. While DSNY will make its own Brown Bins available, this program also includes the flexibility for New Yorkers to use ANY bin of 55 gallons or less with a secure lid.
Service will begin on the following timeline:
March 27, 2023: Service restarts in Queens following a brief winter pause and becomes year-round. There will be no further seasonal breaks in any borough.
October 2, 2023: Service begins in Brooklyn.
March 25, 2024: Service begins in Staten Island and the Bronx.
October 7, 2024: Service comes to Manhattan, marking the first citywide curbside composting program ever.
Since Manhattan is last on the timeline, it will receive additional Smart Composting Bins throughout the borough.
Read the press release here.
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