Education, transparency key to improving New York City’s recycling system, experts say

The New York City Department of Sanitation captured less residential and institutional recycling than it did six years ago and encountered more contamination in recycling streams in 2023, according to its newly released waste characterization study.  While the agency attributed some of the shrink in recycling tonnages to shifting trends, like packaging lightweighting and the decline of newspapers, experts say… 

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