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#weRecycle campaign raises awareness about waste and environmental justice
On November 15, America Recycles Day, the #weRecycle campaign spoke out about the economic and environmental justice benefits of recycling. Not only is recycling good for the environment and important...
View ArticleCOALITION CALLS ON CITY TO TRANSFORM TRASH IN UPCOMING PLANYC
New Campaign Exposes Dirty and Dangerous Commercial Waste System New York, NY— With the renewal of the City’s sustainability plan, PlaNYC, expected later this month, advocates are urging the...
View ArticleTransform Don’t Trash NYC
Ask most New Yorkers if they’ve been woken up by the sound of trucks collecting waste in the middle of the night, and you’d likely hear a resounding “yes!” Gavin Kearney with New York Lawyers for the...
View ArticleCoalition Calls on City to Transform Trash in Upcoming PlaNYC
New Campaign Exposes Dirty and Dangerous Commercial Waste System With the renewal of the City’s sustainability plan, PlaNYC, expected later this month, advocates are urging the administration to...
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EXCLUSIVE: Advocates push de Blasio to revamp how NYC recycles its commercial...
A coalition of environmental advocates and neighborhood groups want Mayor Bill de Blasio to rethink the city’s trash collection policies, arguing that only 40 percent of the garbage collected from...
View ArticleNEW REPORT UNCOVERS HIDDEN GOVERNMENT DATA, REVEALING STATE OF NYC TRASH IS...
Original Research and Buried Bloomberg-Era Reports Show Commercial Waste System Produces More Trash, Recycles Less than Previously Believed With Earth Day and PlaNYC’s Renewal Looming, Advocates Call...
View ArticleCity businesses recycle trash at lower rate than expected: study
Here’s a dirty little secret just in time for Earth Day — the city’s commercial recycling rate stinks. The amount of waste city businesses generate is nearly twice as high as previously reported — and...
View ArticleCity Weighs Reining in Private Garbage Collectors
As midnight approaches, commercial garbage trucks rule the streets of New York. On a Thursday night in Lower Manhattan, trucks from five different companies can be spotted within as many blocks....
View ArticleThe Plan to Cut Truck Traffic By Changing How Trash Haulers Do Business
In the past five years, at least six New Yorkers have been killed, and many others injured, by truck drivers working for private trash haulers. Labor and environmental advocates have a plan they say...
View ArticleActivists Call for a New Approch to Recycling on America Recycles Day
Community Activists, Environmentalists, and Waste and Recycling Workers across the Country Launch Social Media Campaign to Promote Economic and Environmental Justice Benefits of Recycling New York,...
View ArticleREPORT: Dirty, Wasteful and Unsustainable
New York City’s sprawling commercial waste system performs significantly worse on recycling and efficiency than previously believed. Under an inefficient and ad-hoc arrangement that developed over the...
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NYC sanitation system needs cleanup: survey
Small businesses are getting trashed by the waste haulers that pick up their garbage, a new report charges. The survey of 400 small business owners found that 61% don’t have a written contract — which...
View ArticleREPORT: Not At Your Service
New York City is renowned as a metropolis where diverse small businesses thrive in the shadow of icons like the Empire State Building. The city’s nearly 200,000 small businesses are essential to the...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Brooklyn residents hope to shut down waste transfer station, claim...
There’s a lot of trash talk going on in North Brooklyn. Bushwick residents who live around a busy waste transfer station on Thames St. are on a mission to get the facility shut down — claiming the...
View ArticleActivists: Trash this Williamsburg waste station!
They’re raising a stink! The city should shut a smelly Williamsburg waste transfer station that is putting both neighbors’ and workers’ health at risk with its noxious fumes, say residents and local...
View ArticleWhere does NYC’s commercial trash go?
At home, your trash gets picked up by the city. But what about at your local bodega or favorite restaurant? Who picks that trash up? Where does it go? And why should we care? The Center for Urban...
View ArticleWFP to join city-based waste management reform group
The Working Families Party will announce later today that it is joining a city coalition of labor an environmental advocates pushing for reforms to the city’s private waste industry. The Transform...
View ArticleNew Video Highlights Challenges and Dangers of NYC Commercial Waste Industry
Transform Don’t Trash NYC’s New Animated Video Advocates for Reform of NYC’s Private Sanitation Industry NEW YORK, NY – Transform Don’t Trash NYC, a coalition of labor, community, and environmental...
View ArticleCity businesses rarely recycle, but we can fix that
One of the most powerful tools available to the average New Yorker to fight climate change is to recycle all that we can. We are proud of what we’ve accomplished with recycling in our homes, even if...
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