Sanchez explains Waste Equity Law purpose and health impacts
Sanchez explains that the oversight hearing examines implementation of Local Law 152 of 2018, the waste equity law. He describes how environmental justice communities face disproportionate truck traffic, noise, air pollution, and health harms including asthma and low birth weights.
So this was passed as Local Law 152 in 2018, and to assess our progress on reducing the negative impacts of the city's waste collection, recycling, and transfer industry on vulnerable New Yorkers.
New York City's most economically disadvantaged communities and communities of color.
Hi, my district.
Tend to face disproportionate health hazards associated with waste transfer infrastructure.
Specifically, Bronx 1 and 2, hi.
Exposure to heavy truck traffic and the accompanying noise, air pollution, and odor have been linked to various negative health and developmental outcomes, including, but not limited to, reduced intellectual,
development in children, increased incidence of asthma, and heightened risk of heart defects and low birth weights in babies when birthing parents are exposed to truck emissions during pregnancy.
I'd also like to note that we've been welcomed by Councilmember Wilson.
Oh, and a truck sounded just in that time.
If you could hear that.
The waste equity laws mandated reduction in private transfer station capacity.
are meant to help to alleviate some of these harms experienced by environmental justice communities, also commonly referred to during this hearing as EJ communities, and to encourage means of transferring waste that avoid diesel trucks.