Abreu statement: environmental and cost benefits of organic waste separation
Continuing Abreu's statement, Sanchez describes how requiring more businesses to separate organics reduces landfill strain, lowers disposal costs under commercial waste zone rules, and fosters a more sustainable commercial waste system.
This will help ensure more establishments participate in our organic collections recycling system and practice responsible waste management.
This bill...
Builds on the growing success of our city's organics waste system, helping reduce strain on landfill and support our environmental goals.
Households are now required to separate their organic waste, and businesses should be held to the same standard.
This bill is not just good for the environment, it's great.
But also good for businesses'bottom lines by reducing waste disposal costs.
Under the city's current commercial waste zone rules, carters that collect commercial waste must charge less for organic waste collection than general refuse collection.
Requiring new types of establishments to separate organics will help save their businesses money as more of their waste is collected at the mandated lower rates.
Ultimately, it will cost businesses less to do the right thing for our environment.
Intro 31A will help foster a more sustainable and environmental-friendly commercial waste system in our city, and I look forward to working with my colleagues.
to move this bill forward.
I don't know why there's a pause there, but there is, so I'll say it out loud, pause.