The city's expanding composting effort could soon grow to include thousands of private food businesses.
The Sanitation Department is mulling whether to require certain industries to start separating and saving their apple cores, coffee grounds, eggshells, soiled paper towels and other compostable waste products. The city already collects residential food waste from a small—but growing—number of outer-borough neighborhoods. Now it is contemplating whether it's time to expand the program to restaurants, arenas, hotels, catering businesses and grocery stores, among others.
Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia says she expects to make a decision July 1.
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