Queens Leads The City In Trash Production

The borough of Queens is the "trashiest" according to the Post, producing 160,000 tons of garbage last year. With an estimated population of 2,293,007, that means each Queens resident produced an average of .06 tons. However, overall trash produced was down a smidge to 2.5 million tons from 2.6 million in 2008, making this the fourth consecutive year of an output decline despite the city's growing population. Vito Turso of the Department of Sanitation said, "It's definitely recession driven." At least something good is coming out of the recession!

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By Jaya Saxena in News on June 14, 2010 1:16 PM

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drewo

Interesting note about the composition of the city's garbage per this NY Times piece recently:

About 15 percent of the city’s garbage is food, and about 70 percent of the weight of that food is water — which means that the city is shipping tons of water to landfills, according to testimony before the Council last month.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/nyregion/06about.html

EastRiver

Composting would be nice but my neighbors can't even distinguish between the trash chute, paper recycling bin, and metal/plastic bin.

whitecastlerock

People make more garbage when they are broke? How is this a by product of the recession?

smilez4milez

I propose a reread.

People produce less garbage when they're broke because they buy less useless shit they just end up throwing away.