Anderson details 2006 solid waste plan and Local Law 152
Anderson describes the 2006 Solid Waste Management Plan's shift from truck export to rail and barge export. He explains that Local Law 152 required capacity reductions in four overburdened districts and allowed exemptions for recycling, organics, and rail-export facilities.
We also acknowledge that our waste management and export system reflects longstanding injustices and inequities.
To begin to correct these, we have implemented the city's landmark 2006 solid waste management plan, which called for a move away from truck export of solid waste from New York City to more sustainable and equitable rail and barge export.
The facilities and system built as a result of that plan represent billions of dollars in investment, both public and private, in equitable, sustainable waste management systems and have reduced truck traffic.
in historically overburdened communities by hundreds of trips per day.
We did not stop there.
Local Law 152 of 2018, which DSNY spent more than a decade working with the City Council
prior to its enactment, required a reduction in the permitted capacity of putrescible and non-putrescible transfer stations in four historically overburdened community districts.
By 50% in Brooklyn District 1, and by 33% in Queens District 12 and Bronx Districts 1 and 2.
The law also allowed for certain exemptions to those reductions in permitted capacity for activities consistent with the city's sustainability goals, including the processing of recyclables and organic waste,
for diverting construction and demolition debris to beneficial use, and for facilities that export waste by rail.
Local Law 152 represented the culmination of years of advocacy and organizing that began decades ago, as the city began to close its own disposal facilities.
Today, the law has been fully implemented, and we have reduced not only permitted capacity, but also actual throughput and actual truck traffic.
In these historically overburdened communities.