October 8, 2013: Poorly paid private sector waste and recycling collectors throughout the five borough have some of the dirtiest and demanding jobs out there, but a newly-launched effort to transform the way the Big Apple deals with commercial trash pick ups could soon help change all that.
October 7, 2013: Local restaurants, offices and myriad businesses generate millions of tons of solid waste each year, all of it hauled away by private contractors who operate outside the city’s direct control.
October 3, 2013: An advocacy group is calling for New York City to franchise commercial waste collection in the city.
October 3, 2013: An unlikely alliance of unions, environmental activists and neighborhood groups has presented Mayor Bloomberg with a golden opportunity to add a final flourish to his impressive, decade-long effort to make New York greener and cleaner.
October 3, 2013: According to statistics, New York City, an annual production of 6.5 million tons garbage. Government efforts to recycle waste, to reduce household waste. But here nearly half of commercial waste. How to solve this problem?
October 2, 2013: The launch of “Transform, Don’t Trash NYC” coincides with the release of a new report highlighting inefficiencies in the city’s waste management system.