It’s a breath of fresh air
Waste Equity Law cuts 10,000 tons of trash capacity in overburdened nabes
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
City legislation has reduced
the amount of waste processing
capacity in three trashoverburdened
parts of the city
by more than 10,000 tons, according
to a recent report by
the Department of Sanitation.
The so-called 2018 Waste
Equity Law cut daily capacity
of waste transfer stations
by 22 percent in north Brooklyn,
southeast Queens, and the
South Bronx during the fi rst
year of its implementation,
and the bill’s prime sponsor
said the law change addresses
historic injustices of moving
Gotham’s garbage through
mostly low-income communities
of color.
“I grew up breathing the
toxic air produced by trash
trucks barreling through Williamsburg
by the hundreds
on a daily basis,” said Councilman
Antonio Reynoso, in a
statement. “When I became a
Council Member, I committed
to ensuring the next generation
would not be made victim
to the same environmental racism.”
During the bill’s fi rst year
of implementation, starting
in September 2019, 22 waste
transfer stations in those areas
have cut their permitted
daily transfer station capacity
by a total of 10,137 tons, most of
which in Brooklyn, according
to the November DSNY report.
Ever since then-Mayor
Rudy Giuliani closed the Fresh
Kills landfi ll on Staten Island
in 2001, almost all of the Big
Apple’s rubbish has been exported
COURIER L 18 IFE, DECEMBER 11-17, 2020
via long-haul truck and
private transfer stations — 26
out of 38 of which are located
in north Brooklyn, southeast
Queens, and the South Bronx.
The three areas together
process three-quarters of the
city’s trash — north Brooklyn
alone has 38 percent of the waste
processing capacity — which
results in dangerous truck traffi
c and higher air pollution in
those nabes that has had devastating
effects on locals’ health,
said one advocate.
“The law has accomplished
a reduction in permitted
transfer station capacity in
our City’s most overburdened
communities — those same
communities who suffer from
elevated asthma and higher
COVID deaths,” said Melissa
Iachan, a senior staff attorney
for New York Lawyers for the
Public Interest.
Reynoso’s bill mandated a
50 percent reduction of permitted
waste transfer station capacity
in north Brooklyn and
another 33 percent in the other
two areas, while stipulating
that the city’s 59 community
board districts not process
more than 10 percent of the
city’s trash each.
Kings County facilities cut
7,112 tons in capacity during
that year, or about 70 percent
of the citywide reductions, according
to New York’s Strongest.
The largest single decrease
of all stations in the city was by
Cooper Recycling at Varick Avenue
and Meserole Street near
the Newtown Creek in East
Williamsburg, which cut 2,421
tons during that year, almost
halving its capacity.
Most other Brooklyn facilities
affected by the bill were
in that neighborhood or industrial
parts of Greenpoint, along
with some in East New York,
East Flatbush, Red Hook, and
Sunset Park.
The move has likely not yet
drastically cut into the amount
of trash actually moving
through those facilities, since
the 22 stations collectively still
have a daily capacity of 35,312
tons, compared to an average
19,102 tons they took in per day
in 2019, according to DSNY’s
fi gures.
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