STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City never showed a state oversight agency the Staten Island Compost Facility was ready for its rollout of the citywide compost program, the Advance/SILive.com learned this week.
A Department of Environmental Conservation spokesperson said Tuesday that the agency issued a notice of violation to the Department of Sanitation on April 25, 2025, in part because it failed to submit a plan for organics composting at the facility located on the site of the former Fresh Kills Landfill.
The city, then under former Mayor Eric Adams, launched enforcement of its first five-borough mandatory compost program April 1, 2025…