NYLPI Co-Publishes New Report Documenting Severe Dangers in Waste Hauling Industry

NYLPI Co-Publishes New Report Documenting Severe Dangers in Waste Hauling Industry

April 9, 2018

Campaign, Environmental Justice, Media Coverage, News, Press Release, Waste Equity

A New York Garbage truck after an accident

NYLPI, alongside Transportation Alternatives, and Transform Don’t Trash NYC, have released More Dangerous Than Ever, a new report showing that crashes – including fatal crashes – involving private sanitation trucks have doubled. The City’s transition toward a zoned commercial waste system can and must improve safety in the industry.

Read the official press release.

Read more in Politico, New York Daily News, Waste 360, Streetsblog, and the Brooklyn Paper.

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