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.
This 2019 NYC Reuse Sector Report is an update of the data presented in the 2017 report, focused on quantifying materials reuse in NYC. This report series has been to provide a census overview of reuse activity in NYC, allowing DSNY to better leverage this sector in waste diversion goals.
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.
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 research serves as a new “baseline” against which to test NYC residents’ awareness of recycling program advertising when it is launched in media venues throughout the City and would add to the amount of longitudinal data measuring changes over time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As part of the Adams Administration's commitment to long-term strategic planning that improves quality of life and creates an equitable, healthy, and resilient future, the NYC Department of Sanitation has spent the past six months studying the viability of waste containerization in NYC.