INQUIRER.net: New York aims to require composting food scraps

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New York aims to require composting food scraps Jun 18th 2013, 02:45 NEW YORK — Legions of New York City apartment dwellers will soon be asked — and may eventually be forced — to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the city greener.   After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they planned to expand it to 100,000 houses and high-rise apartments in all five boroughs this fall. The initiative would be voluntary for now, but officials aim to make it mandatory citywide in a few years.   New York wouldn't be the first to try it: San Francisco and Seattle already require compost coll... Keep on reading: New York aims to require composting food scraps Media files: new-york1.jpg (image/jpeg)

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