Mamdani administration quietly resumes hefty fines for compost scofflaws

The garbage police are back!

The Mamdani administration has quietly resumed slapping New Yorkers with hefty fines for tossing food scraps in the trash instead of the compost, The Post has learned.

The Sanitation Department has issued 516 summonses so far this year – ending a temporary enforcement pause on the composting mandate that former Mayor Eric Adams implemented last spring.

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