Prison Planet.com
June 17, 2013
San Francisco’s bins for mandatory recycling. Photo: KennethLu
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a plan to penalize New Yorkers who do not compost food waste.
Nanny Mike, who has outlawed consumption
of large soft drinks and smoking outdoors, has an ambitious plan to
handle 100,000 tons of food scraps a year and convert residential food
waste into biogas for electricity generation, according to the New York Times.
Biogas is a trendy alternative to
conventional fuel used to generate electricity. In addition to the
inefficiency of biogas, it is more expensive than other biofuels.
Moreover, sanitation officials in
America’s largest city consider New York too dense and vertically
structured for such a policy to succeed.
For now, Bloomberg’s program will be
voluntary. New York, however, eventually plans to make it mandatory.
Cities around the country, including San Francisco and Seattle, are
currently mandating citizen participation in food recycling programs.
San Francisco’s Mandatory Recycling and
Composting Ordinance fines building owners if they do not provide blue,
green, and black bins and information on their proper use, according to
the SFEnviroment web page.
