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Garbage, Garbage Everywhere
June 25th, 2008

Several tidbits of news on the garbage front.

The first is an agreement on the reactivation of a recycling center on the Gansevoort peninsula in Hudson River Park near 14th Street. Several Manhattan-based Assembly members had been blocking its approval for more than a year — claiming the area was starved of parkland and that there were other sites more suitable for the recycling station.

According to a release by the Bloomberg administration, the Assembly, Senate, governor and mayor will enter into an agreement to identify other projects in the park that will also be funded.

We covered the issue last year here.

The station is a pillar of the mayor’s Solid Waste Management Plan, which aims to equally distribute the city’s garbage throughout the five boroughs. The center’s reactivation would move the implementation of that plan along.

At City Hall, Council Speaker Christine Quinn and members Peter Vallone and Michael McMahon also gathered today to voice opposition over a bill approved by the Assembly and Senate that weakens the city’s recently approved plastic bag recycling law.

The state bill, which is awaiting the governor’s signature, would increase the square footage of a store required to recycle (from 5,000 to 10,000) and it would exempt franchises, said Vallone, who sponsored the city’s bill.

The council is urging the governor to veto the state proposal and work with the city to come up with a better solution.

For more on garbage, check out Gotham Gazette’s Garbage Game to test how you would solve the city’s waste problems.

By Courtney Gross on June 25, 2008, 4:47 pm
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