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Recycling Street Waste
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New York City produces a lot of garbage. Over 36,000 tons of solid waste is produced every day by the city's 8,300,000 residents and millions of workers and visitors. While New York still has not developed an effective waste management system, and the Bloomberg Administration made some unfortunate changes in recycling rules in their first term, there seems to be a growing awareness that we have a major problem on our hands. The solution to our waste problem has four key dimensions:
- Waste reduction.
- Better waste transport.
- Better waste disposal.
- Increased recycling.
A small, but symbolically important part of the recycling puzzle is recycling waste in public spaces. read more »
