Composting in Manhattan?

I have questions

This came in the mail for all of us today, did you read it?

So far: no one in NYC knows that we are about to be buried in organic waste unless they read junk mail (no one) or know politicians personally (or are one) or (like me) they follow obscure local news.

On the side of “who comes up with this stuff” — this postcard wasn’t written by anyone who understands Manhattan. The first thing listed is “leaf and yard waste” — Think about that. LEAF AND YARD WASTE. I would be happy to see a tree somewhere on the sidewalk near my home, much less have a whole yard! With waste! The picture of the half-eaten pizza shaking hands with the maple leaf holding an apple core made me want to educate people in food waste (eat the pizza for breakfast, kids, and feed that apple to the hamster)….

(I’m not even going to ask who vetted the maple leaf’s anatomy)

Composting rules are hideously impossible to follow, even in a house with a garden. My mom raised me and my brothers doing it. Composting in a house required opening the smelliest container of rotting garbage two or three times a day for the briefest amount of time possible, and tossing in scraps of wilted lettuce or moldy strawberries, scraping the uneaten rinds of the watermelon, and the fat from the pork chop (and then the incessant debate whether meat bones could be composted or not) and once per week emptying said…