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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 ...
In the gated vegetable garden area near West 90th Street, there are 87 individual vegetable beds,6 school class plots, a berry patch and a rose garden. There are also community compost bins where garden members a may deposit their coffee grounds and other vegetable waste. Along the west fence is a community herb bed, and espaliered fruit trees.
The New York City Department of Sanitation is the largest sanitation department in the world, with 7,201 uniformed sanitation workers and supervisors, 2,041 civilian workers, 2,230 general collection trucks, 275 specialized collection trucks, 450 street sweepers, 365 snowplows, 298 front end loaders, and 2,360 support vehicles.
New York City's tradition of piling garbage bags on the sidewalk for pickup is going the way of the dinosaur. As of Friday, all 200,000 businesses in the Big Apple are required to put out their ...
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch rolled out a new policy Wednesday requiring 95% of the city’s residential building owners put out trash for street pick-up ...
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 ...
NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams and Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch rolled out a new policy Wednesday requiring 95% of the city’s residential building owners put out trash for street pick-up ...
[356] [357] [358] The NYC Compost Project (formerly the Urban Composting Project [359] [360]), supported by the New York City Department of Sanitation, offers composting assistance and resources, as well as information on composting in residential backyards. [361]