A record-breaking 3.8 million pounds of compost was collected in the second week of a new recycling mandate — a number so overwhelming that the city is opening a new site dedicated to the “black gold.”
That’s 1,900 tons of food scraps, food-soiled paper and yard waste — equal in weight to eight and a half Statues of Liberty — that was kept out of landfills, making for the highest single-week total in the city’s history, the Department of Sanitation told The Post.
The jaw-dropping — and likely vomit-inducing — load is three times what was being composted a year ago, when organic recycling was encouraged in the five boroughs but not mandated.
It’s also a 12% surge from the 2.6 million pounds that was collected in the first week of the new program earlier this month…