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Separating your glass, plastic, newspaper and metal from your trash will be even more important as the city will sign a 20 year recycling contract and build a new recycling plant in Brooklyn. The NY Times calls it a "move that assures the city's broad recommitment to recycling," and Gothamist applauds this. We realize that Mayor Bloomberg needed to cut recycling early in his term for cost reasons, but it seemed demoralizing and, yes, decadent to us that we had to throw everything out together again - which is why we were excited that recycling came back earlier this year. At any rate, the new recycling plant will be just south of Red Hook, in what looks like Sunset Park; the NY Times article is also interesting because it talks about the economics of recycling (currently $50 to recycle a ton, may drop to $40 when the plant is built or even as low as $20) and how this move may affect recycling policies in other cities (one recycling market expert says, "Much like market analysts watch the Federal Reserve in order to assess monetary issues, many people look to New York City when it comes to municipal policies.").
The city will be signing a contract with Hugo Neu, a recycling compandy. And to find out when you should be recycling, check out the calendar at the NYC Department of Sanitation. It's important to recycle - you don't want a huge fire from your saved newspapers. And the DoS had to haul all the garbage from Madison Square Garden during the convention since private trucks weren't allowed.
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A few years ago the New York Times Magazine did a memorable cover story about how recycling was a big scam that could never ever ever make simple economic sense. It was a real downer to liberals like me who try to occupy the high moral ground (atop a tower of bundled newspapers resting on a mountain of empty 2-liter soda bottles.) I hope The Times (or someone else) revisits the issue and tells us that yes, at a certain price per ton, it does make sense.
I think you meant "recycling companda"
Does anyone know why the new center will be located on the waterfront (other than Sunset Park being kind of out of the way?) All these horrible "processing" (trash, light manufacturing, etc) plants are located right on the Williamsburg-Greenpoint waterfront, and now there's enormous regret over the decision. Our waterfront is so dominated by industrial works that it's hard to remember that we're surrounded by water!
Just a wild guess, but maybe they're planning on processing refuse from out of town, and perhaps they're anticipating a need for future water transportation access. (Barges maybe?)
New York wouldn't be a City if it weren't for the commerce that has always been firmly footed along our waterfront. The rediscovery of our waterfront is a relatively recent phenomenon, for most of the shoreline was industrial since the Dutch days....
Recyclables will be first taken to transfer stations along the waterfront throughout the city then moved to the new recycling facility by barge, thereby reducing truck traffic on surface streets.
Thank you Mayor Bloomberg for making this committment to recycling! People in rural areas have to take more responsibility for their trash since they usually have to drop it off at the landfill. New Yorkers just dump it down the chute. So here is a chance for us New Yorkers to take more responsibility for the environment.
Bloomberg's decision to cut recycling a few years ago for budgetary reasons was totally dispicable to me and scarred my opinion of him. I understand cuts need to be made to fix the budget but how could he possibly justify a cut of a service that was in place to help the environment! My opinion of him has never recovered.
Anyone see the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit where they talk about the bullshit of recycling? It was an eye-opening show. I've always been a big fan of recycling, but once they pointed out that it makes no economic or environmental sense to do it, it's made me think twice about why I bother to recycle. If you have Showtime VOD, it's worth watching.
The only thing that upsets me about recycling is that most people (myself included) are missing the most important part: REDUCE OUR CONSUMPTION!
Problem with reducing our consumption is that it affects the economy so few dare advocate that.
Unfortunately our economy is based a lot on wasteful consumption patterns (the newest this-or-that whether we need it or not, etc.). It is really like an addiction to a drug.
We need a fresh way of re-thinking our lives/priorities. Few dare advocate that either. Too busy talking on cellphones to have time to think.
Back when Bloomberg suspended recycling, he'd been led to believe it would save money at a time the city needed to find every way to economize that it could. It turned out he'd been tricked by a Department of Sanitation that resented having to manage a recycling program and used the budget crisis as an excuse to at last shut it down. Problem was, it turned out that Sanit folks were wrong, and scrapping the recyling program actually ended up costing the city, not saving it money. If you care for some of the inside baseball on the recycling program, check out my post reacting to the news of the new contract.
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