New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed 11 new laws on Monday, updating the city’s 21-year-old recycling practices.
Under the new laws, all rigid plastic containers, including yogurt and take-out containers will also now be recyclable, not just PET and high density polyethylene containers (plastics #1, #2) previously collected.
300 new recycling bins will be added on the streets, and new programs include annual household hazardous waste collections, a clothing and textile recycling program, a trial paint recycling effort, and more composting.
Other new initiatives include:
- Requiring city agencies to establish sustainability coordinators and implement plans to expand recycling.
- Requiring schools to designate a recycling coordinator and provide recycling receptacles in each classroom and at other locations.
- Improving recycling education, enforcement, and fine increases.
- Requiring the Department of Sanitation to establish leaf and yard waste composting facilities in all boroughs where the Department provides yard waste compost collection.
- Requiring a report to study ways to improve food waste composting in New York City.
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