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“The Affordable Waste Reduction Act ensures that businesses of all sizes, along with consumers, can play a role in reducing waste without facing exorbitant compliance costs.”

ByJenny Jorge

ByIvan Bueno

ByRafy Nunez

ByJorge Guillen 0Comments

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Mar 2025

ARTS and CULTURE Climate and Environment Profiles

Artist Looks to Beautify NYC Streets—Through Curbside Trash

Adrian Kondratowicz talks to City Limits about the community cleanups he leads with the Trash Project, at a time when volunteer groups fear new city regulations could penalize their efforts.

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Jun 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Bill Seeks to Boost NYC’s Composting Capacity With More Borough-Based Sites

Most of the food scraps and yard waste collected by the city isn’t getting composted. Instead, it’s being turned into fuel to heat people’s homes—and that’s not actually great for…

ByMariana Simões 15Comments

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Apr 2024

Climate and Environment Government Opinion

Opinion: NY State Legislature Must Act to Curb the Perils of Plastic

“To ensure a livable planet for future generations, reducing plastic from the outset is the best way to gain control of how much we’re polluting our air, land, waters, and…

ByHarvey Epstein

ByJane Selden

ByVictoria Augustine 1Comment

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Apr 2024

Climate and Environment Government

Bill Would Codify City Government Ban on Single-Use Plastic Water Bottles

Legislation introduced in the City Council Thursday would stop government agencies from buying water in plastic bottles smaller than one gallon. The ultimate goal is to use water coolers or…

ByMariana Simões 0Comments

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Mar 2024

Climate and Environment Government In Depth Investigations

Chemical Industry Amps Up Lobbying to Block New York’s Waste Reduction Bill

As a bill that aims to drastically cut the use of plastic packaging gains momentum in Albany, the chemical industry has increased spending to stop it, pouring hundreds of thousands…

ByMariana Simões 1Comment

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Oct 2023

Climate and Environment Government Transportation

As NYC Rolls Out Mandatory Composting, Will New Yorkers Comply?

Recycling rates around longtime existing requirements—which ask residents to separate paper, plastics, metal and glass from the rest of their trash—have failed to improve over the last decade. Getting New…

ByMariana Simões 11Comments

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Sep 2023

Climate and Environment

Can We Dig Our Way Out of the Waste Crisis?

“Waste has always been inflicted upon the margins,” said Oliver Franklin-Wallis, author of the new book “Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future.”…

ByDanielle Renwick, Nexus Media News 0Comments

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Sep 2023

Government

With ‘Save the Hudson’ Bill Signed, What’s Next for Indian Point?

After a months-long campaign by residents and environmentalists, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to ban the deactivated nuclear power plant from discharging treated waste into the river nearby. But what…

ByJeanmarie Evelly

ByMariana Simões 1Comment

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Apr 2023

Government In Depth Investigations

Inside the Fight to Stop Indian Point From Dumping Radioactive Water into the Hudson River

The deactivated nuclear power plant, now run by Holtec, wants to discharge 1 million gallons of radioactive waste into the river as early as August. The dumping will release …

ByMariana Simões 5Comments

Opinion: Pass the Affordable Waste Reduction Act