Community organizations, safe streets advocates, and the Teamsters Union applauded the New York City Business Integrity Commission’s decision to suspend Sanitation Salvage’s license to operate in New York City. The company is the largest private carter in the Bronx. The

Private Sanitation Companies Hauled 200,000 More Tons to Landfills Last Year The commercial sanitation industry’s recycling rate fell to 21% over the last year, a new report finds, undermining New York City’s efforts to achieve zero waste by 2030. Leading

Since November, Sanitation Salvage has run over two Bronx residents, 21-year-old Guinean immigrant Mouctar Diallo and 72-year-old NYCHA resident Leo Clarke Leaders of African immigrant communities are calling on the City to revoke the license of Bronx trash hauler Sanitation

As New York City moves forward with reforms to the commercial sanitation industry, a new report finds that crashes have doubled in the industry over the last two years. The report by safe streets and labor advocates reveals that the

Despite new commercial recycling rules intended to make recycling easier and more transparent for New York City businesses, the commercial sanitation industry failed to meaningfully increase recycling in 2016. New York’s commercial recycling rate remains a disappointingly low 22%. The low rate along with photographic evidence suggests that some private waste haulers and processors are illegally landfilling materials intended for recycling.

Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Letitia James announced their support today for the Department of Sanitation’s commercial waste zone policy, which will transform the way commercial waste is collected in New York City. Under the new policy, announced by

A new report from Transform Don’t Trash NYC finds that New York City has an opportunity to create thousands of good-paying jobs by raising the city’s low recycling rate and investing in recycling and composting infrastructure. Leading green cities around

Today, the City of Los Angeles completed one of the final steps in a sweeping reform of the city’s commercial and multifamily waste system, showing that Mayor de Blasio’s plan to transform New York’s commercial sanitation industry along similar lines