The Department of Sanitation is responsible for managing all of the waste generated in the City and for developing a Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan for all waste generated between 2004 through 2024. The department developed the Commercial Waste Management Study to enable the City to assess and plan for the management of the commercial waste stream, to minimize the adverse impacts on the City's communities and environments, and to assist in developing the new plan.
The Department of Sanitation is seeking qualified vendors to provide facilities, equipment, labor, and services necessary to accept, process and market recyclables collected under the city's recycling program.
An advertisement dealing with stopping junk mail from reaching the mailbox. It encourages recycling paper by giving out tips on how no to get junk mail.
The Department of Sanitation conducted a hearing to receive comments on the proposed rule governing certain restrictions to the siting of solid waste transfer stations. The rule will prohibit any new transfer stations from developing and increase the holding capacity of preexisting stations.
Based on the current regulations of commercial transfer stations as mandated by Local Law 74,
the study will evaluate the need for changes in the regulatory system. Some issues to be addressed are that as noted
in the Preliminary Report, there is no single comprehensive system for recording data on commercial waste generation
in the City. The study will assess the means and effects of limiting privately owned putrescible commercial waste
transfer capacity. Marine Transfer Stations and commercial waste stations in Community Districts will be analyzed.
Commercial Waste Management Study Draft Scope of Work for Public Comment and Related Documents.
Letter from the Assistant Commissioner Harry Szarpanski. Fulfilling the mandate of Local Law 74 of 2000, the Study
will evaluate and recommend changes in commercial solid waste management in the CIty. DSNY's consultant team,
Henningson, Durham and Richardson Architecture and Engineering, P.C. (HDR) will conduct the Study. There were
meetings to solicit comments from the Citywide Recycling Advisory Board, the Borough Solid Waste Advisory Boards,
Community Boards, and environmental organizations among others.
The commercial waste study will move forward by developing, through Henningson, Durham & Richardson
(HDR), a scope and they will conduct a study. The outline of the sutdy are set forth by the Administrative Code as
amended by Local Law 74 of 2000. HDR, Dan Harkins, Deputy Commissioner Steve Lawitts, Sarah Dolinar, and Vaugh Arnold
attended this meeting. The focus is on comments on commercial waste management issues that affect certain communities.
The Department will develop a scope and conduct a study and will follow the Administrative
Code as amended by Local Law 74 of 2000. The enforcement of the commercial recycling regulations must be improved
and waste prevention must be encouraged in the commercial sector. Multople representatives for boards in Manhattan
have attended, such as Rick Muller of the Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board.
The Department will develop a scope and conduct a study and will follow the Administrative Code
as amended by Local Law 74 of 2000. Communities in Staten Island will be discussed, and in particular, waste management
in these areas. Representatives from the Citywide Recycling Advisory Board and the five borough Solid Waste Advisory
Boards and other groups will be attending.
The Department will develop a scope and conduct a study and will follow the Administrative
Code as amended by Local Law 74 of 2000. Communities such as Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Red Hook, and other Brooklyn
neighborhoods are included in this public hearing.
The Department will develop a scope and conduct a study and will follow the
Administrative Code as amended by Local Law 74 of 2000. Communities in Queens will be discussed in this panel.
The Queens Solid Waste Advisory Board chairperson, Bob LoPinto has attended, among other representatives of
various organizations in Queens.
Through a number of programs over the past ten years, DSNY has looked at two strategies to recover the compostable fraction of the waste stream: centralized and decentralized (or on-site) composting. This report summarizes the Department's experiences as well as recommendations for advancing each.
This report is part of DSNY's effort to evaluate their own recycling efforts within the context of other major US cities, by both looking at NYC's recycling efforts so far as well as how other major cities calculate and measure their recycling rates.
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