To begin, we'll double the amount of residential waste we divert from landfills by 2017.
Four days into the strike the city announced 19 temporary garbage drop off locations for residential waste.
The landfill became one of the area's main dumps for both residential and industrial waste.
New York City in fact already exports a good deal of its residential waste.
All residential waste we take care of, whether it's a co-op or a condo.
That plan will rely on exporting 13,000 tons of residential waste a day to other states.
About 6 percent of residential waste is being recycled, the Sanitation Department says.
This inequitable burden has not been considered in any proposal to manage residential waste.
About 1,100 tons a day, or about 6 percent of residential waste, is being separated.
The engineer who made those calculations figured on 13,000 tons of residential waste produced by the city's residents per day.
