NYC Council Introduction 256

intro.nyc/0256-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Requiring the commissioner of sanitation to study the feasibility and potential environmental effects of a recycling mandate for household textiles.
Status: Laid Over in Committee Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
Sponsored by Crystal Hudson
Introduced: February 28, 2024

This bill would require the commissioner of sanitation to study and report on the feasibility and environmental effects of a mandate for households to separate, and the department of sanitation to collect, textile waste. The study would consider, among other things, the costs, potential benefits, and potential negative effects of such a mandate.