“By launching the largest curbside composting program in the country, we’ll be dealing a blow to New York City’s rats, cleaning up our streets and keeping millions of pounds of kitchen and yard waste out of landfills,” Adams said in a statement to the Times. *a Chelsea rat becomes a minor celebrity after it pops off a table where it was snacking on fries and begins to perform karaoke*.finally, Manhattan in October 2024. *the earth completes a rotation around the sun as hot garbage bags throb ominously on Canal Street*.the Bronx and Staten Island in March 2024…and then…* 18 generations of rats are born, fed by the same Upper West Side apartment building’s collection of coffee grounds and pizza crusts*. According to details provided to the New York Times, the program will be restarted in Queens this March, head to Brooklyn in October, and then…wait for it….* rat’s lining up next to a pile of trash like they’re at the chocolate fountain at a Golden Corral*. The program in Queens this fall was a moderate success still, the City ended the program over the winter with dubious justifcation, leaving Queens composters in the lurch. The program will not be mandatory, something that the City’s sanitation commissioner, Jesica Tisch, says will help New Yorkers “get used to it.” Today, as part of his State of the City address, Mayor Eric Adams will announce that composting will now be expanded to all five boroughs-by 2024. And now, well, we’re rolling it all the way out. ![]() This fall, it was rolled back out, but only in Queens-this winter, it was rolled back in. At first, it was only rolled out to a few neighborhoods. For over a decade, the City has had a composting program for food waste-sort of.
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