2004 Golden Apple Awards Awards Winners - Winning Entry: TrashMasters! TeamUp to CleanUp - High Schools Division: Queens Borough Honorable Mention - P233 Q Beach Channel High School
This report provides the results of a material-specific waste composition analysis of the New York City municipal solid waste stream, intended to assist DOS in focusing its resources more effectively and enhancing its capabilities in measuring the impacts of its waste prevention programs.
In 1997, as part of DSNY's ongoing assessment of strategies to gauge the performance of NYC’s Curbside Recycling Program, it conducted a short-term, three-part pilot program to measure the effectiveness of mixed waste processing. Each part of the pilot is treated in a chapter of this report.
Local Law 19 of 1989 created mandatory recycling in New York City. This report summarizes the outreach efforts of the NYC Department of Sanitation in the ensuring years, as it rolled out recycling programs citywide.
DSNY's report on five years of market research about recycling in New York City. The Report takes a broad and systematic look at what the people of New York actually think about the City’s Recycling Program, as well as how they feel about possible new alternatives for reducing waste.
DSNY has concluded a one year study of backyard composting in NYC. Taking a comprehensive approach to the evaluation of composting in backyard bins, DSNY worked with Botanic Gardens to implement a pilot program while researching receptivity, participation rates, and waste composition impacts.
This study was initiated in response to Local Law 19 requiring the City to achieve a mandatory recycling goal of at least 25% of the waste stream. The filed data collected will be used by DOS to implement recycling feasibility studies, pilot-scale projects, and full-scale facilities.
White paper explaining rationale for rapidly increasing recycling citywide in the 1990s, and to propose supporting legislative and policy initiatives. Outlines policies and programs needed to attain a 15% recycling goal by 1991.
I am pleased to submit the attached Status Report on Materials Recycling Activities in New York City, which documents the steps taken by the Department of Sanitation during the past year to address the City's pressing waste disposal needs through a program of recycling initiatives.
In response to the unprecedented public interest in garbage disposal and resource recovery in the late 1970s, this report was drafted as a response to the most common questions people had in this area, and outlines the new directions the Koch Administration planned to pursue.