NYC Council Introduction 695

intro.nyc/0695-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
A study of single-use plastics
Status: Laid Over in Committee Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
Sponsored by Sandy Nurse
Introduced: March 19, 2024

This bill would require the Department of Sanitation, in consultation with the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities, to conduct a comprehensive study of new waste policy initiatives that would reduce the sale, distribution and use of single-use plastic items in the city and advance environmental justice through such reduction. The final report would be due on December 1, 2023.