New York City’s curbside composting program is coming to all five boroughs before the end of 2024. Mandatory curbside composting recently started in Brooklyn with collections on Oct. 2. The service will be automatic, guaranteed, free, and year-round.

With these new rules, 70% of the city’s trash is headed into containers.

Mayor Adams and DSNY Commissioner Jessica Tisch recently announced a new front in the administration’s war on rats. They’re launching a plan to containerize waste at approximately 95 percent of residential properties across the five boroughs. The new residential garbage containerization rule will cover all 765,000 NYC buildings with nine or fewer units, continuing the Adams administration’s work to move towards containerization of all waste citywide.