File #: Int 0698-2024    Version: * Name: Clarifying the definition of organic waste drop off site
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 3/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to clarifying the definition of organic waste drop off site
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, Keith Powers , James F. Gennaro, Shaun Abreu, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: Local Law 89 of 2023 requires that the Department of Sanitation, by April 1, 2024, establish and operate no less than 30 organic waste drop off sites citywide, and ensure that no less than 3 such sites are established in each borough. This bill would clarify that organic waste drop off sites, for the purposes of complying with Local Law 89, cannot be considered to simply be a standalone receptacle for organic or any other waste.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 698, 2. Int. No. 698, 3. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24

Int. No. 698

 

By Council Members Nurse, Powers, Gennaro, Abreu, Gutiérrez and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to clarifying the definition of organic waste drop off site

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 16-308.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 89 for the year 2023, is amended to read as follows:

a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Community partner. The term “community partner” means a not-for-profit organization, community garden, or other similar organization that operates or makes available to the public an organic waste drop off site.

Community scale composting facility. The term “community scale composting facility” means a physical location operated by a not-for-profit organization that engages in composting, through a registration or agreement with the department, but that is not of sufficient size so as to be required to obtain a permit for the operation of such facility from the New York state department of environmental conservation.

Organic waste drop off site. The term “organic waste drop off site” means a physical location for the collection of organic waste from members of the public and does not include a standalone receptacle for the collection of any waste.

§ 2.  This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

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