Is that from a robot mower?

They do, but I’ve taken that into account already.

Edit: When I say I’m not sure how it’s going to work, I mean I’m not sure how the city can actually compel most residents to do it. People who choose to do it will be able to.

I’m not sure how this is going to work, except for single-family homes. Apartment buildings with hundreds of units are common, and some of the residents inevitably won’t compost. It’s relatively inconvenient in a large building where residents didn’t have to go outside to throw anything out before. (A lot more inconvenient than recycling, which is usually placed into a bin by the compactor chute.) Is the city just going to fine each building $25 every time an inspector checks? That would be like a new tax, but a low one by NYC standards. Or is the fine going to be larger? Then it would still be a tax, just a higher one, because individual tenants have almost no financial incentive to avoid triggering it.

In my building, to take out the compost you would have to get dressed, take the elevator to the basement, go outside, enter in the code to get into the fenced area with the compost bins, throw your waste into the bin, buzz the front desk so that they open the basement door for you, take the elevator back upstairs (which also requires buzzing the front desk unless you own your unit), and get undressed. That’s on top of having to keep garbage in your freezer. On the other hand, just throwing away the organic waste costs you nothing (because someone else won’t so the building will be fined anyway) and in the unlikely case where you’re the only one who breaks the rule, your share of the fine will be one eight-hundredth.

Edit: I’m not making a value judgement. (I wouldn’t come to a composting sub-lemmy and talk about how composting is bad - that would be rude.) I’m just talking about how the law will (or won’t) work in practice.

I think this neglects a major reason why most people buy a bottle of wine. It’s reinventing boxed wine and it isn’t a coincidence that only the cheapest wine usually comes in boxes.