Many of those officials are already on record supporting the commercial waste collection zone concept.

Waste360 Staff, Staff

August 24, 2016

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Six NYC City Council Members Endorse Commercial Zone Plan

Antonio Reynoso, chair of the council’s sanitation and solid waste management committee, issued a statement praising the mayor’s proposal to cut the number of miles traveled by private carting fleets. Also signing on to the plan are council members Brad Lander, Donovan Richards, Steve Levin, Margaret Chin, and Carlos Menchaca.

Many of those officials are already on record supporting the commercial waste collection zone concept.

Streetsblog has more on the new statements:

“I want to thank the Administration, particularly the Department of Sanitation, for taking on this complicated issue,” said Reynoso. “Since I’ve been overseeing the private carting industry as Chair of the Council’s Committee on Sanitation, I’ve referred to it as the ‘wild, wild west’ because it is inefficient and unregulated. A collection zone system will give us the opportunity to promote sustainability, improve worker safety, get dangerous trucks off the streets, and in general improve what is now a very problematic industry.”

Private trash haulers kill more pedestrians per mile driven than any other type of vehicle in NYC, according to “Killed by Automobile,” a landmark 1999 analysis of crash data produced by Charles Komanoff [PDF]. Drivers of private trash trucks killed at least six people in NYC between 2010 and 2015, according to crash information compiled by Streetsblog.

“Truck traffic continues to be a major issue in our City that negatively impacts the health, safety and quality of life of too many New Yorkers — particularly those living in low income neighborhoods that bear a disproportionate share of our waste transfer burden,” said Chin.

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