19th Jun 2002
Bloomberg Compromises on Recycling Updating
Bloomberg Compromises on Recycling
Updating my earlier post on Bloomberg’s efforts to cut recycling in NYC to close the city’s $5 billion budget gap, WNYC was reporting this moring that the City Council (pro recycling) and the mayor (against) were near a compromise on this key sticking point in the overdue city budget, whereby glass recycling would be suspended for a year and mentals for two years. Not clear what’s up with paper. News Day has a piece that touches on the compromise.
Not good enough in my opinion, but the best we’re likely to get, I suppose. Such is politics. Heidee (who apparently likes seeing her name in print, even if just on a friend’s blog), points out that recycling also represents inome for many of the homeless. Bloomberg’s record on the homeless, meanwhile, appears to be shaping up as a mixed bag, with the mayor seeking to increase funds for public housing (I heard the figure 7,000 new units on the radio today), while trying to overturn a ban that presently prevents the city from evicting trouble-making families from city shelters.
Regarding recycling and NYC environmentalism, here are some interesting links:
- The city’s sanitation department page on the recycling program, which ironically still reads “Whether you live, work, or visit NYC?recycling is the law. New York City has the largest, most ambitious recycling program in the nation.”
- Council on the Environment of New York City
- NYC Environmental Justice Alliance
- Green Guerillas (another NYC green group)
- TreeBranch (ditto)
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