New York City has launched a new e-scrap collection program for multi-family residential buildings.
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New York City has launched a new e-scrap collection program for multi-family residential buildings.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg earlier this week announced a plan to bring food composting to a bigger swath of city residents, a push that is the latest in a cluster of recycling initiatives put forth by Bloomberg during his final year in office. It also places America’s most populous city in the middle of the nation’s ongoing expansion of composting.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday announced a large-scale change to the Big Apple’s recycling program, adding mixed rigid plastics to its curbside recycling collection.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is telling New York City residents to “Recycle Everything,” in an attempt to jump-start recovery rates in the Big Apple in his last year in office.
New York’s City Council voted overwhelmingly to expand the city’s organic waste collection program, paving the way for outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to further reshape the city’s waste collection services.
New York City’s initiatives to improve residential recycling have made plenty of headlines of late, but a recent report is urging Big Apple leaders to focus more on the commercial sector.
New York City’s commercial sector generates more waste and has a lower diversion rate than previously thought, according to an advocacy group that used Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain previously undisclosed government documents.
Over the last few years, the concept of a “circular economy” has gained increased momentum and attention, becoming a buzzword in policy and business circles in Europe and around the world.
Oregon, the first state to launch a beverage container deposit program, will also be the first in the U.S. to increase its deposit amount.
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) recently released a comprehensive study on the availability of recycling in America to help promote change among industry players.