New York City to Double Residential Recycling by 2017

Allan Gerlat, News Editor

January 13, 2012

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New York City plans to double its residential recycling by 2017.

The city will double the amount of residential waste it diverts from landfills by 2017, said Mayor Michael Bloomberg as part of his state of the city address.

“By taking steps like increasing recycling in schools and streets and expanding our plastics recycling program, we’ll reduce our waste disposal costs by $50 million annually and help protect the environment,” Bloomberg said.

Recycling was one of three environmental areas the mayor cited for future attention. The others were clean energy and clean air. “If we’re going to be the most innovative city in the world, we also have to be the greenest,” he said.

 

About the Author

Allan Gerlat

News Editor, Waste360

Allan Gerlat joined the Waste360 staff in September 2011 as news editor. He was the editor of Waste & Recycling News for the first 16 years of its history, and under his guidance the publication won 27 national and regional awards.

Before Waste & Recycling News, Allan worked at another Crain Communications publication, Rubber & Plastics News, which covers rubber product manufacturing. He began with the publication as associate editor and eventually became managing editor, a position he held for nine years.

Allan is a graduate of Ohio University, where he earned a BS in journalism. He is based in Sagamore Hills, in northeast Ohio.

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