T2024-2315
| * | | | | Oversight - Waste Diversion. | Oversight | | | |
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Int 0256-2024
| * | Crystal Hudson | | | Requiring the commissioner of sanitation to study the feasibility and potential environmental effects of a recycling mandate for household textiles. | Introduction | This bill would require the commissioner of sanitation to study and report on the feasibility and environmental effects of a mandate for households to separate, and the department of sanitation to collect, textile waste. The study would consider, among other things, the costs, potential benefits, and potential negative effects of such a mandate. | | |
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Int 0351-2024
| * | Sandy Nurse | | | Requiring the department of sanitation to develop a plan for ensuring proper disposal of rechargeable batteries used for powered mobility devices. | Introduction | This law would require the Department of Sanitation to develop a plan for promoting the proper disposal of rechargeable batteries used for powered mobility devices, such as motorized bicycles and scooters. Such plan would include, but not be limited to: (i) maintaining collection locations for such rechargeable batteries; (ii) accepting such rechargeable batteries at disposal events; (iii) coordinating with private entities regarding voluntary participation in in-store collection programs for such rechargeable batteries; and (iv) conducting public education and outreach regarding proper disposal of such rechargeable batteries. | | |
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Int 0695-2024
| * | Sandy Nurse | | | A study of single-use plastics | Introduction | This bill would require the Department of Sanitation, in consultation with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, to conduct a comprehensive study of new waste policy initiatives that would reduce the sale, distribution and use of single-use plastic items in the city and advance environmental justice through such reduction. The final report would be due on December 1, 2023. | | |
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Int 0697-2024
| * | Sandy Nurse | | | Updated waste characterization studies | Introduction | This bill would continue the existing mandate on the Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies to determine the composition of the City’s residential and institutional waste streams by requiring two additional studies to be completed in 2028 and 2032. | | |
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