This document is intended to outline the scope of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement to be prepared for the City of New York's proposed new Department of Sanitation Garage for Manhattan
Districts 1, 2 and 5.
The Solid Waste Management Plan of 2006 offered a 20-year framework for a managing the City's waste, with goals to increase recycling diversion and eliminate the reliance on land-based truck export and it's environmental impacts. Attached is the final SWMP and all of its original appendices.
A series of comments submitted by the the Committee on Environmental Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York about the New Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) and its DEIS.
Volume 1 of the Final Report presents the results of the PWCS conducted in May and June 2004, and the WCS, conducted from October 2004 through August 2005. The purpose of both the PWCS and WCS was to characterize the City’s residential Waste.