NYC Running Out of Trash Disposal Space, Sanitation Dept Warns — SkimNews
Get the Energy newsletter
Daily energy & climate — solar, EVs, oil, the policy fights and tech bets shaping the transition. Free.
- NYC's sanitation department warned in the latest draft of the city's once-a-decade solid waste management plan that the landfills receiving much of the city's garbage are filling up fast
- New York City is running out of places to dump its trash, with the sanitation department flagging a capacity crunch in the plan
- Landfills receiving the bulk of NYC's municipal waste are rapidly approaching capacity, per the draft plan
- More than two-thirds of NYC's municipal waste goes to the dwindling landfill capacity, according to the sanitation department's draft
- The solid waste management plan is updated once a decade, making this draft the city's current formal statement on its trash disposal future
Why it matters: With more than two-thirds of the city's municipal waste headed to rapidly filling landfills, NYC faces a near-term capacity crunch. The sanitation department's once-a-decade plan is the formal venue where the city normally maps its disposal strategy, so the warning signals that future waste may have nowhere to go under current arrangements.
Ask SkimNews
