Reaching for Zero is a plan proposed for reducing New York City’s waste exports to very close to zero by 2024, through a combination of waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting.

This plan will not only reduce and eliminate the crushing expense of waste exports from the City, but it will also keep dollars spent on waste management circulating within the City’s economy, creating industry and jobs in NY rather than shipping dollars, along with our waste to out of state locations.

With close to 8 million residents and over 12 million people during a workday, New York City produces enormous amounts of waste. 13,000 tons per day are generated by trash and recyclables from the residential and institutional sectors, and another 9,900 tons per day of food scraps, dirty paper, and recyclable containers, from the commercial sector. Commercial construction and demolition debris and fill material are generated in even larger quantities.

New York has thousands of businesses, hundreds of institutions like museums, colleges and universities, and a large number of City, State and Federal Agencies. So when NYC generates waste it is not just in the home, it is on the way to work or school, in public transportation, while visiting government agencies, while shopping at stores and supermarkets, or while at work or play at many of New York City’s recreational facilities, such as parks, zoos, and sports venues.

Since the announcement in 1997 that the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island (which had previously taken all of the City’s waste) would be closed, the City has maintained almost an exclusive focus on exporting waste out of the City to distant landfills and incinerators as the solution to its waste management problems. The costs of waste export to the City are enormous and have risen 91% since 2000 so that they are now over $100 a ton. Following the announcement of the Fresh Kills closure, the City Council and planning committees in the offices of each Borough President made extensive recommendations about how the City should handle its waste. The recommendations, while differing on details, spoke to the need for the City to reduce or prevent waste, to recycle more, to create a larger reuse network, and to compost organic waste. To a large extent, these recommendations have been ignored; hence the Reaching for Zero plan has been actioned.

Find out more about it by visiting: www.consumersunion.org/other/zero-waste/

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A dumpster is a large steel waste receptacle designed to be emptied into garbage trucks. The term is a genericized trademark of the Dumpster brand. The term is also common in Australia although Dumpster is not an established brand there. In British and Australian English, the terms wheelie bin and skip are more commonly used (although they are not perfect synonyms). In some other countries the more descriptive term frontloader container is often used, either in one or two words. In India it is called a garbage bin.

The main purpose of a dumpster is to store rubbish until it is emptied by a garbage truck and disposed of. Dumpsters can be used for all kinds of waste, or for recycling purposes. Most dumpsters are serviced weekly by a hired rubbish removal service.

Many businesses, apartment buildings, schools, offices, and industrial sites will have one or more dumpsters to store the waste that they generate. Dumpsters are emptied by front-loading garbage trucks. These trucks have large prongs on the front which are aligned and inserted into arms (or slots) on the dumpster. Hydraulics then lift the prongs and the dumpster, eventually flipping the dumpster upside-down and emptying its contents into the truck’s hopper (storage compartment).

Other dumpsters are smaller and are emptied by rear-loading trucks. Roll-off dumpsters are large dumpsters from 10-45 cubic yards. These are used at demolition sites, cleanouts, renovations, construction sites, factories and large businesses. 95 gallon dumpsters (or toters) are used by small businesses and homes where a normal bin would be too small, but a regular dumpster would be too large.

Roll-off / Containers / Dumpsters / Opentop Containers are just a few of the names given to these large capacity receptacles. These containers are normally carried by very large trucks with hydraulic arms which load and unload the containers with ease, allowing these trucks to place these containers in very tightly nit places.