The Department of Sanitation put forward a proposal Thursday that would require most “food-related businesses,” including thousands of restaurants and grocery stores, to dispose of their trash in solid receptacles instead of lone plastic bags, as the Adams administration steps up its War on Rats.
The proposed rule, which was first reported by the New York Times, will be subject to a public hearing on June 22, and would require restaurants, supermarkets, bodegas, catering companies, food manufacturers, and anyone else handling grub to dispose of all “putrescible waste” — meaning garbage that can become putrid, like food scraps — in “rigid receptacles with tight-fitting lids.”
