14 DAY TRIAL // His soda ban didn't turn out to be the utter success he expected it would be, but Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is not about to give up on his endeavor to teach New Yorkers what a healthy life is all about.
And since protecting the environment is part and parcel of leading a long and healthy life, the Mayor has announced plans to convince the residents of NYC to separate their food scraps and thus help promote composting.
Ecorazzi says that, when first rolled out, this composting program will be a voluntary one. Otherwise put, the only people who will get to put their food scraps to better use will be those who volunteer to do so.
Still, rumor has in that, in some years' time, doing so will become mandatory.
The mayor and those working closely with him say that, as far as they can tell, all of the pilot programs that they have rolled out to promote composting have yielded encouraging results.
Hence their being fairly confident about what the future holds.
“This is going to be really transformative. You want to get on a trajectory where you’re not sending anything to landfills,” Deputy Mayor Caswell F. Holloway IV reportedly told the press in a recent interview.
Here's hoping more news on this topic will shortly follow.