And for nearly two decades, New York City has entirely outsourced its trash burden to other communities across the country. Meanwhile the city’s construction and demolition industry, which produced 6.4 million tons of garbage last year according to a state official, recycles half the time. Over the next week, POLITICO will publish a series on New York City's management of refuse. But oddly there’s not.”“It just seems like recycling in New York City is stuck in the early ‘90s,” she said. Little progress has been made on that front — the sanitation department exported nearly 3.25 million tons of residential waste in the past fiscal year, up from 3.17 million tons when de Blasio made the promise.

Source: The Local January 06, 2020 09:56 UTC