Compost Cops Are Coming to New York City: Will Policing Food Scraps for Eight Million People Be Worth It?
As of April 1, the city will start issuing fines to New Yorkers if they’re found to be dodging the city’s mandatory composting policy.
In 1990, just one year after New York City made recycling the law, Officer Richard Stasio, wearing a badge and a blue uniform, knocked on the front door of a two-family home at the Wakefield section of the Bronx and asked to speak with the owner.
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