New York, NY – The City Council on Sunday proposed the largest expansion of the city’s recycling program since it began 21 years ago – adding more plastics to the curbside program and greener ways to get rid ofused clothes and household poisons.
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“This is an incredibly significant expansion of our recycling program,” said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. “This overhaul is something we’ve been wanting to do for decades.” The bills Quinn and other Council members plan to introduce this week would:
– Include nearly all plastic bottles and takeout containers in curbside recycling.
– Add public recycling bins on sidewalks.
– Create a hazardous materials program to recycle bottles of turpentine, drain cleaner and other poisons.
– Set up bins around the city for donated clothes and textiles.
– Start a voluntary store takeback program for household paints.
– Improve recycling at schools and city agencies.
Quinn says the measures will cost next to nothing because they will cut the amount of trash the city pays to dump.
The proposal would create a two-tiered fine system for New Yorkers who flout recycling rules. Correcting a system that treats homeowners the same as major-building owners, the new proposal would levy $25 fines on owners of one-to-eight unit buildings for a first offense.
Owners of larger buildings would pay $100, and fines would go higher for second and third offenses. Homeowners would have the option of avoiding a first offense fine by attending a workshop on city recycling rules.
As with anything lately in New York, I kept asking myself “Where’s the money?” as I read. The city did not disappoint. Finally near the end “The proposal would create a two-tiered fine system for New Yorkers ……”
So again it’s all about $$$. In regard to going green, tha’s a joke. NYC is not even a dot on the map.
Hey folks, it’s time to move!!
This is just another money grab by the city – to ticket us even more for not recycling “properly”
It also creates an opportunity for the City to expand the amounts and variety of fines that they can levy! More jobs for inspectors and more fines for the homeowners!
fines, fines, and again fines………….
Please don’t complain about your garbage/recycling and fine situation!! Try living up here for a week and you’ll be singing the praises of your garbage situation. At least you don’t have “organic waste” containers. Or paying $200 – $400 per year to RENT garbage bins, the only way they’ll take it! One almost needs a PHG (professor of garbage) to read and understand all the strictly enforced laws. And after all that, if one tiny thing is not right, they’ll just leave it!! And with garbage pickup every other week, that’s not fun. So relax and enjoy, it could be worse…. 🙂
recycle linens? Great way to spread bedbugs.
All these recycling bins will encourage the rat population.
If you think NYC has high fines, then look at Singapore. The fine for littering is S$1,000 ($717 US) for the first offense and it increases from there. Forgetting to flush a public toilet could result in a fine of hundreds of dollars. Do a Google search of Singapore is a “FINE” city.
I think its a great Idea. Lets have a two tier system, a fine if you recycle and one if you don’t. After all they don’t get enough tax.
If NY had a chance to be as clean as Toronto or Singapore it would be worth it. I’m fed up by sloppy habits of residents.
from a research paper done a few years ago th city recycles over 600,000 tons of recyclables a year. that includes bottles, cans, tins, cardboard, newspaper. thats 600,000 tons less sitting in a dump a year. add up the years of recycling, thats a lot of garabage. expanding the program, true a pain and annoying, will benfit us for now and the future. (if you want details about the amounts the sanatation collects, dumps recycles ect…look at the sanatation website)
The more paper we recycle, the less trees we have to chop down, the more carbon dioxide is removed from the air, the more oxygen is pumped into the air. The more aluminum pans we recycle, the cheaper does aluminum cost, the cheaper the fighter jets the US sends to Israel. Everything is connected. When people recycle they display an attitude for HaShems’s bounty, an attitude that says that we are the keepers of the Earth, an attitude in which we say bruchas for beautiful vistas. Where would you rather live, in a place where recycling laws are generally ignored, the trees and grass are sparse, and smoke is in the air, or in a place where the recycling laws are for the most part obeyed, the trees and grass are everywhere, and the air is clean and invigorating at night?
I’m still confused why I see the schools and apartment buildings (in many cases) not recycling at all, while the sanitation police can leave tickets for $75. at my door, chas v’shalom.
Sad that so many people here see this as a money grab. Trash disposal costs much more and it would be nice if torah jews realized protecting hashem’s creation is important.
Bloomys revenge for 5 minute rule