The Food Metrics Report is an annual report reporting on the state of food security, policy, and City programs across New York City. This report is a compilation of City Agency data related to food production, processing, distribution, consumption.
DSNY has announced its spring 2023 SAFE Disposal (Solvents, Automotive, Flammables, and Electronics) Events schedule. The events provide city residents an easy way to safely dispose of potentially harmful household products.
The New York City Department of Sanitation has issued a Snow Alert for Monday, February 27, 2023, beginning at 4 p.m. The alert is in effect through 9 a.m. Tuesday. A Snow Alert is the Department’s “higher-level” winter weather message, as opposed to the “lower-level” Winter Operations Advisory.
The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that there WILL BE collection service on Presidents Day, Monday, February 20, 2023. Residents who normally receive Monday trash, curbside composting or recycling collection should place their material at the curb between 4 p.m. and midnight
The New York City Department of Sanitation announced that in observance Lincoln’s Birthday, there will be no trash, composting or recycling collection on Monday, February 13, 2023.
DSNY has announced that curbside Christmas tree collection will begin Friday, Jan 6, 2023. Collection will run through Saturday, Jan 14, 2023, barring any delays that may be caused by winter weather events. As a reminder, Christmas trees are collected separately from trash and recycling.
With back-to-back holidays observed on consecutive Mondays, the New York City Department of Sanitation is providing guidance to residents who normally receive Monday collection.
NYC Sanitation announced that in observance of Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 24, 2022, there will be NO trash, curbside composting nor recycling collection on the holiday.
NYC Sanitation has announced the special leaf collection schedule for all City residents. Release details specific collection schedules for the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Staten Island.
NYC Sanitation Announces Collection Schedule for Election Day and Veterans Day 2022. In short, no collection on Election Day, and regular collection on Veterans Day.
In advance of the holidays on October 10, DSNY has announced additional service and a change in guidance for service on that day. This is a continuation of our pilot “on-holiday pick-up” program representing an additional service as collection normally does not take place on the holiday.
DSNY has announced the fall 2022 SAFE Disposal (Solvents, Automotive, Flammables, and Electronics) Events schedule. The events provide city residents an easy way to safely dispose of potentially harmful household products. The first event of the season will be held Sunday, September 18 in Manhattan
To help Staten Island residents more easily dispose of their unwanted textiles and batteries, DSNY is announcing the launch of a pilot program to pick up textiles and batteries, in addition to already collected electronics, “on demand” with an appointment-based collection service.
In advance of the Labor Day holiday, the New York City Department of Sanitation has announced additional service and a change in guidance for Monday, September 5, 2022. This pilot “on-holiday pick-up” represents an additional service as collection normally does not take place on the holiday.
Trucks of Art is open to all artists – professional, amateur and aspiring. To promote sustainability, artists are challenged with using paints that would otherwise be discarded or reycled.
The New York City Department of Sanitation is again reminding those affected that it would start enforcing the rules, starting July 31, 2022, requiring additional food-related businesses to put their food scraps to beneficial reuse.
The New York City Department of Sanitation is again reminding certain food-related businesses that enforcement of the Commercial Organics Requirements is set to begin July 31, 2022, the end of a two-year warning period extended due to the COVID pandemic.
The Mayor’s Executive Budget for FY 2023 restored some funding for the city’s organics recycling program, which suffered cuts in the Mayor’s previous budget proposal. However, none of the reinstated funding is for the expansion of the city’s curbside collection program.
DSNY thanked the members of the NYC Council for last week’s passage of Resolution 55-A, calling on NY State to pass Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) into law this year. Currently, NYC residents pay hundreds of millions of dollars to have recyclable material transported and processed.
LL22 of 2019 mandated DSNY to pilot the curbside collection of organic waste from 15 buildings wholly occupied by city agencies. Funding for organics was suspended by the pandemic, in lieu of a comprehensive report, this memo highlights our accomplishments and learnings up to March 2020.
The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that Christmas tree collection will begin Thursday, January 6, 2022. Collection will run through Saturday, January 15, 2022, barring any delays that may be caused by snow events.
DSNY, GrowNYC, and the NYC Compost Project hosted by the NY Botanical Garden today celebrated the realization of a promise made in Mayor de Blasio’s 2021 Earth Day announcements: the opening of more than 200 community-based Food Scrap Drop-off sites.
With two back-to-back Saturday holidays, the New York City Department of Sanitation is providing guidance to residents who normally receive Saturday collection.
DSNY, GrowNYC, and the NYC Compost Project hosted by the New York Botanical Garden will celebrate the realization of a promise made in Mayor de Blasio’s 2021 Earth Day announcements: the opening of more than 200 community-based Food Scrap Drop-off sites.
DSNY installed 16 pioneering “Smart Bins” to collect food scraps in Astoria, Queens. Along with a similar pilot launched by Alliance for Downtown New York in Lower Manhattan this week, these bins are the first test of an effort to allow round-the-clock drop-off of compostable material.
A two-day celebration of reuse, with a focus on kids items and activities. The two days of free events will include swaps, donation drives, giveaways, volunteer opportunities, and more fun for the whole family.
A two-day celebration of reuse, with a focus on kids items and activities. The two days of free events will include swaps, donation drives, giveaways, volunteer opportunities, and more fun for the whole family.
The Department of Sanitation announced the next Community Boards to receive Curbside Composting following its pandemic-related suspension and relaunch. Service is being restored as a sign-up only program.
As the city relaunches curbside organics collection after a yearlong suspension due to Covid budget cuts. IBO examines the cost of the city’s program and models what's needed to make the program as fiscally sustainable as it is environmentally.
Annual report of NYC curbside and containerized municipal refuse and recycling statistics, broken down by borough, district, and material type for fiscal year 2021.
The New York City Department of Sanitation has announced that our appointment-based curbside e-waste collection program, put on hold during the pandemic, will resume, starting with service to Staten Island residents. Appointments can be made now for collection service beginning Tuesday, September 7.
The NYC Department of Sanitation has announced that curbside composting is on the way back to many city residents! By composting, New Yorkers keep their neighborhoods clean, reduce waste being sent to landfills, create compost for City Parks, and produce clean, renewable energy to heat homes.
The New York City Department of Sanitation announced that in observance of Independence Day, there will be no trash or recycling collection on Monday, July 5, 2021.
DSNY will cut the ribbon on a new large-scale compost bagging machine, a Hamer Fischbein 2090. This machine – a centerpiece of the Department’s wholesale compost operation – will be capable of bagging and wrapping up to 600 pallets per week, for a total of 1.9 million 40-lb. compost bags annually.
DSNY has announced its annual curbside collection of Christmas trees! Residents should put trees out curbside starting Monday, January 4, 2021. Collection runs through Friday, January 15, weather permitting.
DSNY is pleased to announce that residential trash and recycling collection will resume beginning the evening of Friday, December 18. Residents who have placed material curbside for collection should leave that material out, and residents who have held back mate.
DSNY has announced that it has now transitioned to its winter schedule operations. Known as “Night Plow,” the winter schedule enables the Department to have pre-scheduled staff on hand to respond promptly and effectively to snow and ice conditions around the clock.
DSNY reminds some additional food-related businesses that starting today, they will be required by law to separate their organic waste – such as food scraps.