What's happening
This bill requires cities in New York with populations over one million to include plans for trash and recycling receptacles in commercial and recreational areas.
Why it matters
Addresses urban litter and cleanliness. By mandating citywide planning for trash and recycling receptacles, the bill directly targets the persistent issue of street litter, which can impact public health, city aesthetics, and tourism in large urban areas.
Links environmental and public space policy. Requiring coordination between sanitation and parks departments ensures that both commercial and recreational zones are covered, integrating waste management with the way people actually use city spaces.
Promotes recycling infrastructure. Including recycling receptacles—not just trash bins—supports broader waste reduction goals, encouraging residents and visitors to separate waste and potentially improving recycling rates in high-traffic areas.
Increases municipal accountability. The requirement to include these provisions in local solid waste management plans means cities must formally assess and justify their receptacle coverage, making it easier for citizens to demand improvements and for oversight bodies to track progress.
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Collect Park Recyclables
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Sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.980
- Reported
- Referred to environmental conservation
- Referred to environmental conservation
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Require Recycling in City Parks
In Senate Committee · Environmental Conservation · Sponsor Kevin S. Parker
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3776
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, WALKER, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
AN ACT to amend the environmental conservation law, in relation to the siting and presence of adequate numbers of trash receptacles in commercial zones and recreational areas in cities with a population of one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 27-0107 of the environmental conservation law, as added by chapter 70 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read as follows:
(b) The local solid waste management plan shall:
(i) characterize the solid waste stream to be managed in the planning period;
(ii) assess existing and alternate proposed solid waste management programs and facilities;
(iii) address to the maximum extent practicable the comments and views expressed by concerned governmental, environmental, commercial and industrial interests and the public on the waste reduction, recycling, reuse and disposal alternatives;
(iv) identify the parties with responsibility to implement each element of the plan and the steps which must be undertaken by each;
(v) set forth a timetable for implementing the plan;
(vi) describe the participation in the preparation of the plan of each municipality which has chosen to participate in such preparation; [and]
(vii) describe (A) measures undertaken by the municipalities participating in the planning unit to secure participation of neighboring jurisdictions, (B) the limitations, if any, imposed by the proposed plan on solid waste management alternatives available to such neighboring jurisdictions, and (C) alternatives which would be available if a local
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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solid waste management plan including such jurisdictions were prepared. Specific written suggestions received from neighboring jurisdictions shall be summarized and reflected in the plan; and
(viii) in a city with a population of one million or more, a plan for the control of litter, including provision for the placement of an adequate number of receptacles for trash and recyclables located in commercial and business districts as determined by the sanitation commissioner of such city, and public recreational areas such as parks, zoos and botanical gardens as determined in conjunction with the parks commissioner of such city.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided, however, that the commissioner of environmental conservation is authorized to promulgate any and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this act on its effective date on or before such date.
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