Nearly a Third of NYC's Trash Gets Incinerated Elsewhere. What Would It Take to Stop The Practice?

Nearly a Third of NYC's Trash Gets Incinerated Elsewhere. What Would It Take to Stop The Practice?

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Vows to End NYC's Trash Bag Era by 2031: “In the Wealthiest City on Earth, Sidewalks Shouldn't Be Covered in Garbage”

Six more community districts across New York City will have all of their residential trash stored in containers rather than piled in bags on sidewalks by the end of 2027, Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Sanitation Commissioner Gregory Anderson said Tuesday. The expansion would bring to eight the number of the city’s 59 community districts free of curbside trash bags, and it comes with a commitment from the Mamdani administration to containerize t…