Int 0697-2024
Requiring the department of sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies.
IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Managementintroduced 2024-03-19Local Law 2025/014
Enacted as Local Law 2025/014.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 2024-03-19Passed: 2025-02-22Enacted: 2025-02-22
Summary
This bill would require the Department of Sanitation to conduct and submit reports on two waste characterization studies, the first of which would examine DSNY-managed residential and institutional waste streams and be due by January 31, 2028, and the second of which would examine available information regarding NYC’s commercial waste stream and be due by January 31, 2032.
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management — Department of Sanitation and the Business Integrity Commission.
How it compares
22% of similar bills passed
11 passed · 39 died
This bill: 309 days in committee
Similar bills: median 612 days · 105 days when passed
Compared against 50 Introduction bills in Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management.
Ranked by how closely each matches this bill's topic — closest first:
Int 2250-2021
Goal of zero waste to landfill.
281dFiled
Int 0493-2022
Requiring the dept of sanitation to establish a plan for accepting commercial solid waste at city-owned marine transfer stations.
576dFiled
Int 1228-2025
Expanding the categories of businesses that may be subject to requirements regarding the disposal of commercial organic waste.
265dFiled
Int 0667-2015
Requiring the dept of sanitation to conduct a feasibility study concerning placing sensors on public waste receptacles.
1052dFiled
Int 0255-2018
Commercial waste collection zones.
1430dFiled
Int 0275-2022
Goal of achieving zero waste by increasing waste diversion from landfill or incineration.
405dEnacted
+ 44 more comparable bills
Sponsors (22)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-03-19 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-03-19 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2024-09-25 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2024-09-25 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2025-01-23 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2025-01-23 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
ActionAmended by Committee
2025-01-23 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2025-01-23 · Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
AdvancedApproved by Council
2025-01-23 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2025-01-23 · City Council
AdvancedCity Charter Rule Adopted
2025-02-22 · Administration
ActionReturned Unsigned by Mayor
2025-02-24 · City Council
Votes (11)
Aye (11)
Sandy NurseJulie MeninChris BanksVickie PaladinoRafael Salamanca, Jr.Shaun AbreuDavid M. CarrJames F. GennaroSandra UngInna VernikovSusan Zhuang
Heard at (5)
City Council · 2025-01-23 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management · 2025-01-23 · 10:30 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management · 2024-09-30 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management · 2024-09-25 · 10:30 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Room, 16th Floor
City Council · 2024-03-19 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (20)
- Summary of Int. No. 697-A
- Summary of Int. No. 697
- Int. No. 697
- March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024
- Committee Report 9/25/24
- Hearing Testimony 9/25/24
- Hearing Transcript 9/25/24
- Proposed Int. No. 697-A - 1/16/25
- Committee Report 1/23/25
- Hearing Transcript 1/23/25
- Committee Report - Stated Meeting 1/23/25
- January 23, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-23-25
- Int. No. 697-A (FINAL)
- Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council
- Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB
- Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor
- Local Law 14
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 16-316.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 40 for the year 2010, is amended to read as follows:
� 16-316.1 Waste characterization study. a. The commissioner shall complete follow-up studies to the studies performed in [two thousand five] 2005 regarding the characteristics of the city's residential and institutional waste streams for department-managed solid waste on or before January [thirty-first, two thousand twelve] 31, 2012, and on or before January [thirty-first, two thousand eighteen] 31, 2018. The results of each such study and an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council and the mayor within [sixty] 60 days of their completion.
b. On or before January [thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four] 31, 2024, the commissioner shall complete a detailed, comprehensive citywide multi-season study of the city's residential and institutional waste streams for the purpose of determining the composition of the waste stream characterized by type of material. The results of such study and an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council and the mayor within [sixty] 60 days of its completion.
c. 1. No later than January 31, 2028, in addition to the studies required by subdivisions a and b of this section, the commissioner shall conduct a detailed, comprehensive citywide multi-season study of the department-managed residential and institutional waste streams for the purpose of determining the composition of such waste streams characterized by type of material.
2. No later than January 31, 2032, the commissioner shall conduct a study of the composition of the commercial waste stream in the city, including construction and demolition debris, to the extent that information about such composition is readily available to the department.
d. Within 60 days of the completion of each study conducted pursuant to subdivision c of this section, the commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the council and the mayor and post on the department's website the results of such study and an analysis of those results.
� 2. This local law takes effect immediately.
MBB
LS # 15007
01/15/2025, 10:43am
1
1