Yes change is hard, but sometimes necessary. Fortunately we only need to put the food scraps in the rat resistant containers, which are provided free by the city, and there’s no sorting. If you eat it it goes in the food bin. You can acumúlate the scraps in a plastic bag in your apt. and throw it , bag and all, in the building food scrap bin. If you have your own bin , even easier. This way food is never left in appetizing bags outside. Less bugs, less smells, less rats, less trash to ship to Maryland or wherever it goes.

Yeah, It’s the right move. It’s expensive to ship our trash away from nyc. 1/3rd of our trash is food scraps, that feed rats. Keeping the food in rat resistant containers and using it to make energy and soil is a win all around.