Long range planning

Our Goals

To inspire and support communities and businesses in achieving zero waste mandates (City & State) through education, advocacy, and collaboration. Our activities are in support of this zero waste goal.

We consider Zero Waste to be 90% diversion from landfill and incineration within a ten year period. Zero Waste is achieved by maximizing waste prevention and diverting discards to reuse, recycling, and composting according to the zero waste hierarchy.

What we do

  • Enact a city-wide mandatory recycling lease rider and annual tenant letter

  • Explore transparent trash bags city-wide with post-consumer resin content to easily identify material

  • Expand distribution of existing Residential Recycling guide

  • Generate and distribute a Reuse Guide for multifamily building.

  • Support NYPSC EPR packaging and paper products (PPP) efforts

  • Generate EPR PPP talking points

  • Educate MSWAB on PPP EPR and product recovery vs. recyclability

  • Diagram regional recycling infrastructure

  • Generate and distribute a NYC principals of packaging design guide

  • Assess effectiveness of Local Law 69 of 2013, an EPR for refrigerants

NYC Recycling guidelines

NYC’s Department of Sanitation (DSNY) provides free curbside recycling collection for NYC residents and schools. All NYC residents and businesses are required to recycle.

Businesses must arrange to have their recycling collected by a licensed private carter.

Learn more about DSNY’s Recycling Guidelines.

Recycling plastic is expensive, time-consuming, and can leach toxins. Learn about the impact of plastic waste in nyc.

JOIN THE Residential-RECYCLING COMMITTEE

The Manhattan SWAB Residential-Recycling Committee consists of residential leaders, zero waste professionals and community advocates. The committee meets monthly on the second Tuesday from 11:00-12:00 pm ET.

Contact us to join or learn more.

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