2015 NYC Organics Collection Report

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2 Local Law 77 Report 2015
Commissioner’s Note Friends – In the two years since City Council passed Local Law 77 of 2013, the landscape of solid waste in New York City has rapidly changed. Today, we have convenient, robust and growing programs to manage materials previously discarded without thought. We have fostered the incredible work of the reuse community, piloting curbside collection of textile donations and expanding re-fashioNYC to more than 100,000 households. We have developed the nation’s largest in-home electronics recycling program, e-cycleNYC, serving more than one million apartment building residents. We have initiated an aggressive plan to bring all New York City Housing Authority developments into the curbside recycling program for the first time since mandatory recycling began. And we have built a pilot organics collection program, the first new regular curbside Sanitation service since the early 1990s. Today, that program serves more than 500,000 residents, with another 200,000 residents joining this fall. By the end of next year, more than one million New Yorkers will receive NYC Organics Collection service, and our City will have the largest curbside organics collection program in the nation. This report lays out how we have built this program, including the challenges we have overcome and the many successes along the way. While we acknowledge that we still have work to do to make NYC Organics Collection a robust, sustainable, citywide program, I am very proud of the work that the Department, our partners, and all of our participating residents have done to get us this far. Together, we must work together to ensure this program’s growth and success and continue to work toward our goal of achieving zero waste to landfills by 2030. Sincerely, Kathryn Garcia DSNY Commissioner Kathryn Garcia with summer 2015 organic interns. NYC Department of Sanitation 3
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