Jessica Tisch, New York City's sanitation chief, hopes to keep billions of pounds of organic waste from ending up in landfills. But she needs to figure out where to put it all.
The sanitation department plans to provide every New Yorker with the option to voluntarily participate in curbside compost collection over the next two years, starting in Queens on March 27.
New Yorkers generate about 8 million pounds of organic waste daily, according to the sanitation department, most of which ends up in landfills producing the greenhouse gas methane.