Years of NYLPI Advocacy Pays Off As NYC Releases Plan to Reform Commercial Waste
November 7, 2018Environmental Justice, Legislative
NYLPI, along with members of the Transform Don’t Trash (TDT) Coalition, has lobbied for years for reform and views the plan as a framework to protect workers and communities impacted by the commercial waste industry along with the general public and our shared environment. NYLPI Senior Staff Attorney Melissa Iachan was quoted in the Department of Sanitation’s Press Release announcing the move. She said: “DSNY’s Commercial Waste Zones plan sets NYC on the path to meaningful, comprehensive reform of a broken commercial waste system. We look forward to working with the administration and the City Council to ensure passage of a historic, robust reform that fully protects the workers on the trucks and the communities where the vast majority of the City’s garbage is trucked each night.”
Click here for the full post, and click here to read a statement on the reforms by the TDT coalition.
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