Food waste and the complexity of New York City’s garbage

Working steadily every day, “New York’s Strongest,” the city’s Department of Sanitation, works to clear our streets of mountains of garbage. The Department is well-managed, and its Commissioner, Jessica Tisch, is a creative and effective public manager. But waste management is a political backwater, and no mayor ever wants to hold a press conference to cut the ribbon on a new waste transfer station or an anaerobic digester to process food waste…
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