Residential

States are supporting EPR laws that would force product manufacturers to pay for the cost of recycling and disposing of their products.

The city’s Recycle Right campaign aims to improve recycling practices and includes multiple “tactics” such as social media ads and community events.

DSNY tells the New York Daily News that the offer “is absolutely not under consideration.”

Mayor Grover Robinson is donating his annual $100,000 salary to residents’ bills for trash pickup.

SWANA is urging state and local governments to include waste management in emergency orders being issued in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Stericycle participated in NWRA’s March 19 webinar, “Managing COVID-19 Waste,” to discuss the safe handling of waste during this pandemic.

The city pushed the annual trash fee due date to May 11 from April 10 to provide relief and assistance to taxpayers.