{"id":214848,"date":"2026-04-30T00:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:23:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-dsny-begins-enforcing-curbside-composting-after-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214848\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Dsny Begins Enforcing Curbside Composting After Pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Curbside composting has technically been mandatory in New York City since April 2025, but after being in effect for less than three weeks, the Adams administration and DSNY paused fines. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Then Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement that the decision was made so the city could &#8220;conduct additional outreach and education on composting.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s unclear at this time how much outreach was done and many Brooklyn residents say they still don&#8217;t know what composting is. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A spokesperson for DSNY says the agency began issuing tickets again in March and since then, more than 1,500 Brooklyn residents have been fined. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;People can\u2019t even afford to live now but you\u2019re thinking of punishing people for garbage, that don\u2019t make sense,&#8221; said Michael, a Canarsie resident. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Curbside composting has technically been mandatory in New York City since April 2025, but after being in effect&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-214848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}