Big Apple residents are legally required to compost their garbage, but steaming landlords say they’re getting the rotten end of the deal by being forced into dumpster diving to comply.
Starting Tuesday, the city will dish out $25 fines for failing to separate food scraps from regular trash .
But for apartment buildings, the responsibility will fall on maintenance staffers rather than the residents, who can continue to chuck their coffee grinds and chicken bones down the garbage chute without consequence, property owners claim.
“We don’t think that forcing hard-working building supers to be elbow-deep sorting through tenants’ garbage — turning building maintenance into a daily dumpster dive — is where the government should be focusing their energy and resources right now,” railed Kenny Burgos, the New York Apartment Association CEO and former Bronx state rep, to The Post…