Small Business Information: Know Your Rights
Know Your Rights! According to NYC law you have the right to: Choose your carter free from intimidation or pressure. A carting company cannot refuse service if it serves other businesses within a 10...
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http://transformdonttrashnyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Transform-Dont-Trash-final.mp4 This powerful video features City Council Member and Sanitation Committee Chair Antonio Reynoso, small...
View ArticleWorker information: Know your rights
Know Your Rights! According to NYC law, you have the following rights as a worker: The right to payment in accordance with the law. The minimum wage is currently $8.75 in New York and you’re entitled...
View ArticleDirty, Wasteful & Unsustainable: The Urgent Need to Reform New York City’s...
New York City’s sprawling commercial waste system performs significantly worse on recycling and efficiency than previously believed. Under an inefficient and ad-hoc arrangement that developed over the...
View ArticleNot At Your Service: A Look at How New York City’s Commercial Waste System is...
New York City is renowned as a metropolis where diverse small businesses thrive in the shadow of icons like the Empire State Building. The city’s nearly 200,000 small businesses are essential to the...
View ArticleWhere does NYC’s commercial trash go?
Transform Don’t Trash NYC is proud to premiere “Where does NYC’s commercial trash go,” a short animated video that looks at how the unregulated commercial waste industry in New York City is...
View ArticleReckless Endangerment: How New York City’s Unsafe Commercial Garbage Trucks...
Reckless Endangerment, a report by Transform Don’t Trash NYC and Transportation Alternatives, details how New York City’s private sanitation companies operate garbage trucks with high rates of faulty...
View ArticleReforming for a Better Deal: How to Align Cost Savings, Sustainability and...
This report details six evidence-based recommendations for how we can ensure that pro-recycling policies are also pro-business. The Transform Don’t Trash NYC coalition believes that as the city expands...
View ArticleClearing the Air: How Reforming the Public Waste Sector Can Address Air...
Decades of lax regulatory policies have permitted commercial waste haulers and facilities to prioritize their bottom line above the environment, community health, and worker welfare. Haulers bypass...
View ArticleClean City, Green Jobs: How Smart Recycling Policies Can Build Our City’s...
New York City has an opportunity to create thousands of good-paying jobs by raising the city’s low recycling rate and investing in recycling and composting infrastructure. Leading green cities around...
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Worker stories: Wilson Perez
Wilson Perez, a former Queens County Carting worker, has direct experience of many of the problems with the private sanitation industry. Whenever he complained to the company owner about his long...
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Worker stories: Orrett Ewen
For nine years Orrett Ewen worked as a helper for Sanitation Salvage, a carter that primarily serves customers in the Bronx and is one of the largest in the city. He was required to work for 16 to 17...
View ArticleMore Dangerous Than Ever
More Dangerous Than Ever, a new report from Transform Don’t Trash NYC, finds that crashes in the commercial sanitation industry have doubled over the last two years. The report reveals that the top 20...
View ArticleA Wasted Opportunity
The commercial sanitation industry’s recycling rate fell to 21% over the last year, a new report finds, undermining New York City’s efforts to achieve zero waste by 2030. Leading cities, such as...
View ArticleFighting New York’s Climate Crisis with Waste Zones
New Law Would Make Huge Greenhouse Gas Reductions Transitioning New York City to an efficient, high-diversion commercial waste zone (CWZ) system will avoid up to 2 million tons of Greenhouse Gas...
View ArticleTrashing New York’s Neighborhoods
New York City is undermining its major investments in solid waste and recycling infrastructure by allowing the private commercial waste industry to massively increase its reliance on trucking of...
View ArticleStill More Dangerous: New York City’s Commercial Garbage Companies Continue...
Still More Dangerous: New York City’s Commercial Garbage Companies Continue to Put Workers and the Public at Risk DOWNLOAD REPORT As New York City moves forward with implementation of the Commercial...
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