NYC sanitation does pickup microwaves and other small appliances and for any appliances with a battery just remove the battery.
You can place the microwave or other small appliances alongside your other garbage and they will pick up them.
The microwave will then be picked up as recycling.
You can dispose of a mattress topper or even a mattress, box spring, futon etc by placing it out with your regular garbage pick up.
Place the mattress topper or other items you want disposed by curbside between the hours of 6:00 PM to midnight the evening before the bulk trash collection day.
NYC does recycle some of the garbage and they do recycle items that are set out for recycling.
NYC or New York City recycles around a fifth of it's garbage.
The New York City garbage is transferred by barge and truck to a transfer station in New Jersey, and then winds up in any of many landfills in several states.
New York City does not still dump any of their garbage in the Ocean.
New York city used to dump their garbage in the ocean up until around 1992.
A federal mandate made it illegal for cities including New York City to dump their garbage in oceans.
After protracted quarreling with the state of New Jersey, New York City was then forced by the Supreme Court, in 1934, to stop dumping in the open ocean.
These days, when the garbage scows head out, they're all going to Fresh Kills, Staten Island.
The New York City garbage is transferred by barge and truck to a transfer station in New Jersey, and then winds up in any of many landfills in several states.
How does the United States of America deal with its garbage?
Some trash such as paper, cardboard, plastic, metal and glass is recycled.
In New York, commercial businesses rely on private service.
But for residences, the city of New York collects garbage free of charge from everyone including houses, midrises, huge apartment buildings, public housing complexes.
That's more than 800,000 residential buildings, producing about 24 million pounds of waste a day.