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The measure would approve up to $410,813 a year for UltraSystems Environmental to assist the county in monitoring the landfill for at least five years.

A new report found that illegal dumping increased by 32 percent in the last three years despite a 40 percent increase in preventive services.

The company, which shut down in November 2018, allegedly owes former employees payment for their work.

Illegal plastic waste factories in Malaysia are expected to be shut down during the first quarter of 2019.

Northside filed suit over what it referred to as the city’s “binding contract” to sell it a transfer station on city-owned land.

The proposed legislation would allow BIC to bar union officials from representing sanitation workers if they are found to be “lacking good character, honesty and integrity,” reports ProPublica.

In addition to GSR’s suit, there have been other efforts to challenge the franchise agreement, though none have been successful.

The city is looking at ways to spend the more than half million in settlement money from Northern Metal Recycling.

The 33-year-old sanitation driver, who drove off after hitting the woman, has been suspended. DSNY is investigating.

Browning-Ferris Industries was at the center of NLRB’s 2015 decision that changed the long-standing definition of what constituted a joint-employer.