New York is all set to have new recycling legislation in place and has completed teh signing of 11 new laws updating the city’s 21-year-old recycling laws. As per the new laws, the department of sanitation will take a full range of plastic containers to a new Sims Recycling Solutions facility in Brooklyn.
The facility will be operational in 2012 and is expected to divert 8,000 tons of plastic from the landfills the city uses. Public spaces will host 300 new recycling bins, and all public schools and city agencies will have recycling programmess as well.
New programmess include annual household hazardous waste collections in each borough, clothing and textile recycling programme, and a trial paint recycling effort, reports Waste & Recycling News.
Other provisions of the new laws aim for diversion, instead of tonnage, goals for recycling, different fine structures for residential properties that don’t recycle and periodic waste stream and recycling evaluation studies.
A food waste composting study also has been mandated, along with follow-up waste studies between 2012 and 2024.