The vast majority of New York City Housing Authority residents have no way to comply with the sanitation department’s new composting rules that require everyone in the city to separate their organic waste from their regular trash.
The sanitation department on Tuesday began issuing tickets to property owners who fail to follow the mandate. The enforcement launched six months after curbside compost collection rolled out to the entire city .
But NYCHA, the city’s largest landlord with more than 500,000 tenants, doesn’t yet have the infrastructure in place to follow the rule. What’s more, the sanitation department has no way to force NYCHA to set up a composting program because there’s no legal mechanism for one city agency to issue a summons against another…