Annual report on the Department of Sanitation's alternative fuel program, as required by Local Law 38 of 2005, Section 24-163.2 of the Administrative Code.
This study fulfills DSNY's requirements under Local Law 40 of 2010 and builds on decades of research and analysis into the evolving composition of our waste stream.
DSNY (through donateNYC) conducted a comprehensive survey of NYC’s reuse sector. The aim of this survey and assessment was to provide a census overview of reuse activity in New York City and to expand the knowledge about the enterprises that contribute to product reuse and waste prevention
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.
Fulfilling the requirements of Local Law 40 of 2010, DSNY has completed a multi-season residential and institutional Waste Characterization Study. The 2023 Study was conducted over two seasons and determined the waste composition of several major sources from which DSNY collects.
The 4th annual report on the donateNYC Partnership program outlines the environmental and social impacts of donateNYC's 70 nonprofit Partner organizations. In 2017, donateNYC Partners diverted close to 100 million pounds of goods from landfill and provided social services to over 1.5 million NYers
Curbside collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
Curbside and Containerized collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
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.
To all licensees and registrants: On Sunday, November 5, 2023, New York City will host its annual NYC Marathon and Family Reunion event. See below for a list of roadways that will be temporarily closed by the NYC Police Department for the event.
To all BIC licensees: On a quarterly basis, you must submit to the Commission a customer register that includes all customers located in New York City.
- Customer data for July 1, 2023 through September 30, 2023 is due by October 31, 2023.
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.
Sticky signs that inform residents why items that were set out for collection were not collected by DSNY, with checkmarks to indicate the reason: bulk items, hazardous waste, CFCs, broken glass/sharp objects, or unsealed mattresses.
All licensees and registrants: New York City’s annual Summer Streets program will be held in each borough over the course of five Saturdays between 7:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. each day, and temporarily close multiple streets and locations to all motor vehicles, including trade waste collection vehicles.
To all BIC trade waste broker registrants: On a bi-annual basis, you must submit to the Commission a customer register that includes all customers located in New York City. Customer data for January 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023 is due by July 31, 2023.
To all BIC trade waste broker registrants: On a bi-annual basis, you must submit to the Commission a customer register that includes all customers located in New York City.
• Customer data for July 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 is due by January 30, 2024.
All BIC licensees must on a quarterly basis submit to the Commission a customer register that includes all customers located in New York City. Customer data for April 1, 2023 through June 30, 2023 is due by July 31, 2023.
To all BIC licensees: On a quarterly basis, you must submit to the Commission a customer register that includes all customers located in New York City.
• Customer data for October 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023 is due by January 31, 2024.
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 Compliance Report, submitted in accordance with the provisions of NYCRR Title 6 Part 360-15.12, provides status information on the City of New York’s (City) progress in implementing its approved Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan for the planning period of 2006 through 2025.
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.
Curbside collection routes serve individual districts; trucks on these routes pass over scales each day which transmit tonnage data into DSNY's centralized computer system. For this reason, monthly statistics, by Community Districts, can be tracked and reported.
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.
ecycleNYC is a free and convenient electronic waste recycling service available to residential apartment buildings with 10 or more units. The service is provided by the NYC Department of Sanitation and ERI.
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.
New York City recycles a wide variety of waste, but some materials are more likely to be recycled than others. The city has three solid waste streams: refuse, paper recycling, and metal/glass/plastic recycling. Overall, about 44 percent of recyclable material is “captured” by city recycling programs
Report concerning the New York City Comptroller's audit of the NYC Office of Administrative Tax Appeals' (OATA's) compliance with Local Law 36, which governs waste prevention, reuse and recycling by New York City agencies.
Financial Statement Commission 2017 Directive, all companies licensed by BIC are required to submit annual financial statements, and must be submitted on or before August 17, 2018.
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.
Local Law 40 (LL40) requires all contractors managing the City’s solid waste disposal program or recycling program for the Department of Sanitation to use ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel (ULSD). It also requires these vehicles to be equipped with emissions reduction technology to reduce the pollutants
Local Law air reports for Fiscal Year 2019 as required by Local Laws 38, 39 as amended by Local Law 73 of 2013, 40, 41, 42 of 2005 and 43 of 2010 as amended by local law 119 of 2016. These reports document the use of ultra-low sulfur diesel fuel, compliance with biodiesel requirements, etc
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
The Mayor's Press Office releases information about notable events and actions taken by the Mayor, as well as transcripts of all media conferences, radio shows, and ceremonies that the Mayor attends.
DSNY Commissioner Jessica Tisch, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and community leaders will gather the day before curbside composting returns to ALL of Queens to remind residents of the World’s Borough about this simple, easy to use, universal program.
BIC Agenda Items
• Upcoming Rate Cap Hearing
o BIC will hold a virtual hearing on the maximum rate that may be charged by licensees for the collection, removal, disposal, or recycling of trade waste on October 11, 2023 at 11:00am.
• Safe Operations
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.
Dear Licensees and Class 1 Registrants: You are reminded to complete the Department of Sanitation's ("DSNY") Solid Waste and Recycling Semi-Annual
Reports for 2022, which were due on June 30, 2023 and are now past due.
DSNY is pleased to submit its 2023 Zero Waste Plan which provides an overview of our portfolio of waste diversion programs, which reduce waste to landfill and assist with the City's climate goals. This plan fulfills the requirement of Local Law 87 of 2023 to submit a Zero Waste Plan.
This guide is for any school receiving DSNY collection service. The goal is to make all schools Zero Waste Schools by taking best practices from the first 100 Zero Waste Schools, started in 2016.
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 New York City Business Integrity Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. The subject of the public hearing will be the maximum rate that may be charged by licensees for the collection, removal, disposal, or recycling of trade waste.
Annual report of NYC curbside and containerized municipal refuse and recycling statistics, broken down by borough, district, and material type for fiscal year 2021.
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.
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.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DSNY adopts the following rule: this rule amends Section 1-08 of Title 16 of the Rules of the City of New York to require source separation of yard waste, so that yard waste must be put out separately from other waste for collection.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that DSNY adopts the following rule relating to the use of certain receptacles by food-related businesses. Those establishments that place materials out for collection in bags, regardless of the time they close, may place such materials at the curb no earlier than 8:00 p.m.
DSNY is proposing to amend its rules relating to the use of certain receptacles by a chain of stores. When and where is the hearing? DSNY will hold a public hearing on the proposed rule. The public hearing will take place via Webex at 10:00 AM on July 31, 2023.
What are we proposing? DSNY is proposing to amend its rules relating to the use of certain receptacles for food-related businesses.
When and where is the hearing? DSNY will hold a public hearing on the proposed rule. The public hearing will take place via Webex at 10:00AM on June 22, 2023.
Beginning August 15, 2018, additional New York City businesses will be required by law to separate their organic waste. Read inside for a description of the rules.