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Recycling in New York City (18 P) Pages in category "Waste management infrastructure of New York City" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The DSNY is the primary operator of the New York City waste management system. [2] The department's motto. "New York's Strongest", was coined by Harry Nespoli, long-time President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 831, to describe the Department of Sanitation's football team in the late 1970s to early 1980s. [3]
New York City is a hotbed of canning activity largely due to the city's high population density mixed with New York State's container deposit laws. [18] Canning remains a contentious issue in NYC with the canners often facing pushback from the city government, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and other recycling collection companies ...
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NYCDEP manages three upstate supply systems to provide the city's drinking water: the Croton system, the Catskill system, and the Delaware system. The overall distribution system has a storage capacity of 550 billion US gallons (2.1 × 10 9 m 3) and provides over 1 billion US gallons (3,800,000 m 3) per day of water to more than eight million city residents and another one million users in ...
The list of top 10 baby names shouldn’t be all too surprising, the Health Department said, with most appearing on the list in the past few years.. Sofia, for example, crawled its way into the No ...
Meanwhile, approximately 40 people dressed as Christmas elves gathered in Central Park for the inaugural “Project Elf,” a family-friendly event which resembled a smaller and “sober SantaCon ...
Similar municipal systems of waste disposal sprung up at the turn of the 20th century in other large cities of Europe and North America. In 1895, New York City became the first U.S. city with public-sector garbage management. [26] Early garbage removal trucks were simply open-bodied dump trucks pulled by a team of horses.