Bay Ridge begins organic recycling April 28
Food scraps, yard waste to be sorted for separate collection
Bay Ridge is joining the city’s composting revolution.
Residents in the southwest Brooklyn community will begin voluntarily taking part in the Department of Sanitation’s pilot program to recycle organic trash for composting at the end of this month.
Residents won’t be expected to compost, but they will be asked to place things like food scraps, coffee grounds, yard waste and even food-soiled paper in a special bin for separate collection by sanitation workers – apart from the normal recycling collections that have taken place for years.
Each household in the target area will be given a bin.