Nearly four years after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the city’s goal of sending zero waste to landfill by 2030, three key initiatives to obtaining that goal have been put on hold.
In a recent report, Waste Dive thoroughly examines the three stalled initiatives that the City of New York Department of Sanitation (DSNY) considers the keys to the city’s zero waste success—expansion of New York City’s organics curbside collection; conversion to single stream recycling collection for metal, glass, plastic and paper products by 2020; and a “save-as-you-throw” program.
