Climate Justice: the Campaign to Clean Up Commercial Waste Industry скачать в хорошем качестве

Climate Justice: the Campaign to Clean Up Commercial Waste Industry

On November 20, 2019, Mayor Bill de Blasio signed into law a transformative bill to create commercial waste zones in New York City. The new law will create geographic zones for commercial waste collection and require private hauling companies to meet rigorous safety, customer service and environmental standards in order to win contracts to collect waste in each zone. This video gives a snapshot of the successful campaign led by NYLPI and its coalition partners. Please visit www.nylpi.org for more information. A broad coalition including environmental justice, labor, environmental, and small business advocates banded together 7 years ago to fix the broken commercial waste system. The private waste system was chaotic and inefficient, with about 90 companies criss-crossing the boroughs in search of customers. The commercial waste zone law will save an estimated 18 million diesel truck miles a year. (That’s 37 trips to the moon and back!) This means less air pollution, less fatigued garbage truck drivers, and safer streets for all New Yorkers. Private sanitation work remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the nation. This law will improve conditions by ensuring that private carters meet safety criteria before they're selected to serve a commercial zone and will prevent pedestrian deaths. This legislation will also help address our climate emergency by requiring selected waste haulers to meet far higher recycling, composting and waste reduction standards. By raising New York City’s dismal commercial recycling rate to the levels in San Francisco or Seattle, the greenhouse gas emissions saved will be equivalent to removing one in five cars from New York City streets. By investing in better recycling and composting infrastructure, the private waste industry will also create hundreds of good, green jobs in the process.