Sanchez asks about throughput exceeding 90% and citywide decrease
Sanchez asks whether throughput ever exceeded 90% of permitted capacity and whether it was reported. Anderson says he is not aware of specific instances but will check; he attributes citywide throughput decrease partly to Local Law 152 shifting waste out of the city.
Has there, I want to flag, this also was in 2018.
This hasn't been.
and been 10 years ago, it seems like it was an entire lifetime.
Having said that, have there been any incidents since this lifetime ago where the law was implemented where throughput at any of the solid waste transfer stations exceeded 90% of the total permitted capacity for such transfer stations?
And if this had happened, were these instances reported to the council and the mayor?
Where throughput exceeded 90% of the permitted capacity.
Yeah.
I'm not aware of specific instances, but we can certainly take a look at that.
Okay.
Overall city throughput has decreased since 2019.
Can you help us understand what explains this trend?
Well, one, I think the implementation of Local Law 152 reduced overall citywide throughput because the majority of transfer stations were located in districts that were covered by Local Law 152.
So when you reduce the permitted capacity citywide, you have to send that waste elsewhere.
So more of that waste is going either up to Westchester County or into New Jersey in places that aren't regulated by the Department of Sanitation.
I think there's also a part of it that could be related to just waste reduction overall.
We'll say because we have not fully implemented commercial waste zones, we don't have good historical data on the amount of waste that our businesses are generating.
And so, you know, that's speculation at this point.
Once we have commercial waste zones fully implemented at the end of 2027, we will have very robust data on where the waste is being generated, where it's going, and what kind of waste it is.
And I encourage you to look at the full data set that we posted along with the commercial waste zones annual report, which has a lot of data in it.
Awesome.
And then when looking at this data, we see that the throughput decreased primarily in non-designated CDs, while the throughput remained the same in the four designated CDs since 2019.
Could you also help us explain that trend?
don't necessarily know that I'm seeing the same trend, but we'd be happy to dig into the data with you.
Okay, that'd be great.
We would really love to make sure that we're all on the same page there.