SPECIAL REPORT: New York City Recycling
Rollback: Big Apple Cuts Plastic, Glass Collections; Debate Rages On Implications

ISSUE: Volume 12, Number 7 July 2002

ABSTRACT:

New Yorkers like to believe that as the Big Apple goes, so goes the nation. More often than not, for good or ill, it’s a true sentiment, as the solid waste industry has seen in recent years. The state’s waste exports have spawned dissent and attempts at retaliatory legislation in states as far away as Texas. And when the Fresh Kills landfill closed recently, the extra 14,000 tons of daily waste changed the entire complexion of waste flow throughout the Eastern United States.

SECTIONS:

-NYC Recycling Background
-Immediate Effects
-The Next Steps
-Is It A Trend?
-Recycling Across the Nation
-Long-Term Prospects
-About the Data

DATA:

-Table: Annual Solid Waste Generation, Recovery, Exports and Dsiposal in the States Surrounding New York City in 2001 (Figures in Thousands of Tons per Year)
-Table: An Analysis of Annual Waste Generation, Recovery & Disposal Within 150 Miles of New York City (Figures in Thousands of Tons per Year)
-Figure: Map of Solid Waste Landfills and Waste-to-Energy Facilities Within 150 and 250 Miles of New York City
-Table: The Top Destinations for NYC Waste (Volumes in Tons per Day)

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