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NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

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Design for the Staten Island Transfer Station project has been completed and is currently in the Uniformed Land Use Review Process (ULURP). This transfer station will provide the borough of Staten Island with the ft' ability to transfer waste, collected by trucks, to freight containers for shipment out of New York City.

Bureau of Waste Prevention, Re-use, and Recycling I The Department continues its efforts to reduce the quantity of solid waste the City must dispose. The Department manages the largest and most aggressive recycling program in the United States.

The Buteau of Waste Prevention, Re-use, and Recycling studied and implemented many of the Fresh Kills IS Task Force/ recommendations. These include extensive educational outreach programs and the expansion of materials to be included in the City’s recycling program. For example, the City expanded it.s recycling program to include mixed paper and household metal bulk collection. Also, pursuant to Local Law 59 of 1998, the City has expanded alternate week recycling collection to a weekly collection schedule in an effort to augment recycling / participation arid waste diversion rates. In April 2000, the Department implemented the final phase of weekly recycling, providing all New York City residents with weekly collection services. The Department also expanded its leaf and Christmas tree collection to increase compostirig. In September 2000, the Department convened a Ip task force with the Board of Education to examine issues related to recycling jn New York City schools. In January 2001, based on task force recommendations, the Department started a pilot for dual-bin recycling and refuse collection at public schools.' As of April 2001,362 New York City schools were receiving this service. In October 2001, the Department plans to implement dual-bin collection to include 699 schools citywide.

These efforts are evident in the City's diversion rates. For the first four months of 2001, the citywide diversion rate was 19,9 percent of the residential and curbside waste stream and 35.6 percent of the total Department managed waste stream (including recycled construction and demolition debris and tires). This represents a 0.7 percent and I a 2.6 percent increase respectively, compared to the first four months of fiscal year 2000.

BureauCf Waste Disposal ' ‘ \

The Bureau of Waste Disposal (BWD) is responsible for the receipt, transfer, transportation, and final disposal of approximately 12,000 daily tons of resideritial and institutional waste through its waste export contracts. As a result of refuse diverted from the landfill, workload reductions have occurred at the marine transfer stations and at the Fresh Kills landfill. Staffing levels at these facilities have been reduced through attrition and redeployment to other divisions. I J ' ' ' / ■ ■ BWD isialso responsible for the Fresh Kills landfill closure activities. The Financial Plan includes funds for ; closure activities including the final capping of the landfill, leachate treatment and control, methane gas collection and flaring, inaintenance and security of the site and waterways, and environmental monitoring.

The Bureau of Cleaning and Collection

The Bureau of Cleaning and Collection (BCC) is primarily responsible for collecting household refuse and i recyclables, cleaning City streets, and enforcing recycling regulations and portions of the City’s health and administrative codes. BCC provides refuse collection services two or three times a week depending on the population density of the community. Additional resources have been provided for this function due to increased travel time to export refuse to out-of-city private transfer stations and to ensure that collection schedules are cbmpleted on time. 'I The Financial Plan also includes additional resources for citywide weekly recycling collection. Due to the f increase in recyclables collected, the Department will deploy additional trucks to ensure that collection schedules i ■ ■ . H

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