Section 16-316
§ 16-316 Recycling and composting economic development study. Within
two years of the effective date of this section, the department, in
conjunction with the mayor's office of long-term planning and
sustainability and the New York city economic development corporation,
shall perform a study on the economics of recycling and composting and
the development of recycling and composting-related industries in the
city of New York. Such study shall: (i) assess the New York city
recycling market including but not limited to a growth forecast for
recycling markets and related industries for the next five years; (ii)
describe those industries or businesses that would address shortcomings
in the city's recycling and composting infrastructure and areas where
opportunities for recycling and composting-related job growth in the
city appear practical, describing barriers to recycling and composting
businesses, and outlining financial and other incentives that might be
successful in attracting new recycling and composting-related businesses
or encouraging the expansion of existing recycling and
composting-related businesses; (iii) examine existing markets for
processing and purchasing recyclable materials and the potential and
steps necessary to expand these markets; and (iv) look at the city's
taxation and finance authority to stimulate recycling and the demand for
recycled materials. Sections of such study may be shared with or derived
from the composting report required pursuant to section 16-316.2 of this
subchapter.
Section 16-316.1
§ 16-316.1 Waste characterization study. a. The commissioner shall
complete follow-up studies to the studies performed in two thousand five
regarding the characteristics of the city's residential and
institutional waste streams for department-managed solid waste on or
before January thirty-first, two thousand twelve, and on or before
January thirty-first, two thousand eighteen. The results of each such
study and an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council
and the mayor within sixty days of their completion.
b. On or before January thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four, the
commissioner shall complete a detailed, comprehensive citywide
multi-season study of the city's residential and institutional waste
streams for the purpose of determining the composition of the waste
stream characterized by type of material. The results of such study and
an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council and the
mayor within sixty days of its completion.
Section 16-316.2.
§ 16-316.2. Food waste composting study. The department, in
conjunction with the mayor's office of long-term planning and
sustainability, shall issue a report by July first, two thousand twelve
recommending methods to expand the diversion of compostable waste from
the city's waste stream. In preparing such report, the department or the
office of long-term planning and sustainability shall (1) study the
viability of a curbside collection program for household and
institutional compostable waste including, but not limited to, cost
considerations and any concerns regarding siting composting facilities
to conduct such a curbside collection program; (2) identify existing
private and public facilities within three hundred miles of the city
that accept compostable waste for composting and determine the available
capacity at and cost to deliver compostable waste to such facilities and
any siting considerations concerning such facilities; (3) review
capacity at putrescible solid waste transfer stations permitted by the
city, and putrescible solid waste transfer stations within sixty miles
of the city, and determine whether any such transfer stations are
capable of accepting source-separated compostable waste for
consolidation and transportation, the cost to deliver source-separated
compostable waste to such facilities and any siting considerations
concerning such facilities; (4) explore opportunities to expand the
currently available capacity to compost compostable waste at existing
sites within the city or, in conjunction with the study required by
section 16-316 of this chapter, explore opportunities to develop one or
more new facilities within the city or within sixty miles of the city
for the composting of compostable waste, including, but not limited to,
opportunities to work with one or more entities to develop such
facilities and any siting considerations concerning such a facility; (5)
compile a comprehensive list of sites around the city including, but not
limited to, city botanical gardens and greenmarkets, that accept
household and institutional compostable waste on a voluntary basis, and
recommend methods to encourage and expand options for voluntary
composting; and (6) provide a plan to study the viability of instituting
a food waste composting program for the residential or commercial waste
stream, to be completed within two years of the issuance of such report.
Section 16-316.3
§ 16-316.3 Household hazardous waste collection. a. No later than July
first, two thousand eleven, the commissioner shall establish a citywide
program for the diversion of household hazardous waste from
department-managed solid waste which shall include, but need not be
limited to, at least one annual drop-off collection event at one or more
designated sites in each borough.
b. The department shall report annually the total amount of household
hazardous waste diverted by the program established pursuant to
subdivision a of this section. Such report shall specify each category
of material and the amount of such material collected at each collection
event or site established pursuant to subdivision a of this section.
Such report shall be included as part of the department's annual
recycling report required pursuant to subdivision k of section 16-305 of
this chapter.
c. The commissioner shall study opportunities to establish additional
household hazardous waste collection events and sites, as well
opportunities to provide for the collection of household hazardous waste
at designated sites on a regular basis. The commissioner shall report on
such opportunities to the mayor and the council within two years of the
effective date of this section, and annually thereafter, and such report
shall be included as part of the department's annual recycling report
required pursuant to subdivision k of section 16-305 of this chapter.
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