Alterations to the Level of Service Commercial Waste Zone Awardees Must Provide to Assigned Customer

Effective date: January 2, 2025

Proposed Rule Full Text
DSNY-Proposed-Amendment-of-Rules-Relating-to-Level-of-Service-Required-to-be-Provided-to-Commercial-Waste-Zone-Customers-1.pdf

Adopted Rule Full Text
DSNY-Notice-of-Adoption-of-Amendment-of-Rules-Relating-to-Level-of-Service-Required-to-be-Provided-to-Commercial-Waste-Zone-Customers.pdf

Adopted rule summary:

The Department of Sanitation is currently implementing the first zone of the Commercial Waste Zones program mandated by Local Law 199 of 2019. The private waste carters who have been awarded the right to operate within the first zone (“awardees”) have been signing up customers, but the percentage of businesses that have signed up with an awardee remains low. Pursuant to 16 RCNY 20-20(e), the Department will assign an awardee to any businesses that have failed to sign up with an awardee by the final implementation date for the zone. The rules of the Department currently state that assigned businesses shall receive two days of refuse collection per week and one day of designated recyclable materials collection per week, as well as one day of source separated organics collection per week if the commercial establishment is a designated covered establishment. However, there are businesses that generate a large amount of waste such that they currently require waste collection as frequently as five days per week. If these businesses were assigned an awardee for waste collection just two days per week, their waste would not be collected in a timely manner, and it could build up on the street. Therefore, this rule will give the Department the flexibility to assign a business up to five days a week of waste collection if an assigned business generates an amount of waste that requires collection more frequently than two days a week.