The mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, announced plans to expand the city's capacity to convert food waste into compost through hassle-free curbside composting.
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00:00 We've got to re-compost this.
00:02 [LAUGHTER]
00:05 And by October of this year, every single New Yorker
00:09 on every block and every borough will have access to hassle-free
00:14 curbside composting.
00:16 It's an amazing achievement that we didn't think we would be able to pull off
00:21 because of the failures in the past, but we knew we could get it done,
00:25 and under this commission, we got it done.
00:27 It pushed back on the roading problem we're having in the city.
00:32 We're keeping methane out of our atmosphere,
00:35 and we are putting our food and yard waste to beneficial use
00:39 to clean our environment, and it's about how do we find smart,
00:44 productive ways of accomplishing this task.
00:47 So we can turn our food trash into what the commission always states,
00:50 into treasure, treasure that can be used in a productive way.
00:54 We're focused on the fact that our city produces 24 million pounds
01:00 of residential waste each day, and a third of it,
01:04 a third of the 24 million is food waste.