Laptop Battery A year ago, recycling in New York City was in retreat. Branded as an environmental luxury no longer affordable to a city in fiscal crisis, the decade-old program of curbside sorting and collection was cut back. Now companies are bidding to restore it and bring jobs to the city to support its resurgence.
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Thinkpad And in a paradoxical way, city officials, environmentalists and waste disposal experts say, the rebound has come about through the same forces that threatened recycling in the first place: government budget troubles.
I a recycling nut Úhere, I said it. Look at my curb on recycling day and you l see mounds of bags filled with newspapers and other paper scraps and barrels full of empty plastic and glass bottles. Throw a soda can out in the garbage No way. Recycling just makes sense to me. Why add something to our already overwhelming landfills when it can be taken to a recycling facility and transformed into something else
Microsoft When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg suspended the collection of glass and plastic last summer, he said that dumping that waste in a landfill or incinerating it was the cheaper alternative and would save the city about $40 million a year.
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Laptop Computers But those savings have been very hard for the city to demonstrate, with independent budget experts finding evidence of only $11 million or less in cost reductions. For many people, that punctured the argument that recycling was a big financial drain.
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Laptop Computer At the same time, other changes fell into place to support recycling's return. Some were the result of the suspension, others were purely coincidental, and none had anything to do with lofty goals about saving the planet.
timed, had separate companies that would come for regular garbage and recycling, on separate days. What would have been extremely nice would be that you pay more for more garbage, and less for recycling. So if your neighbor had 50 lbs of trash, they would pay $50 while, you would only had 5 lbs of trash, would pay $5. That would be a great system, but I do not see it happening here. They had two days for trash, and only one day for recycling. amazing. And scary to think all that stuff is being put into a landfill.
Desktop Computer Pennsylvania, which receives much of New York's garbage and is struggling with its own budget crisis, slapped a surcharge on waste heading for its landfills. That raised the costs of traditional disposal. In New Jersey, a metal salvage company called Hugo Neu Schnitzer East, which had never been involved in municipal recycling, saw a new niche and offered to rebuild the city's recycling program on some of the best financial terms ever offered to New York.
Notebooks In just one year, environmentalists say, that combination of forces may have actually made recycling the cheaper alternative to traditional disposal a threshold that recycling's supporters dreamed about but never reached. And that breakthrough has made Mr. Bloomberg, the man who said recycling made no budgetary sense, its unlikely and accidental savior.
Lenovo Officials at the city's Department of Sanitation agree that the landscape has changed and that recycling is looking better than ever. The commissioner, John J. Doherty, has repeatedly said the Hugo Neu bid alone has reshaped the department's economic assumptions about recycling.
Hard Drive Other department officials said the only thing keeping a contract from being signed with Hugo Neu for the program's return is the overarching uncertainty of the budget. They simply do not know how many people will be on the payroll when the budget storm passes, they said. Recycling, even if its costs are reduced and parts of it make money, may simply not be possible with a sharply reduced city work force.
Travelstar Either way, hardly anyone is suggesting, as many were a year ago, that New York recyclers may soon be sorting and bagging their last.
Gateway "From the point of view of city number crunchers, the suspension was a failure," said City Councilman Michael E. McMahon, a Democrat from Staten Island, who is the chairman of the Council's Sanitation Committee. "But from the point of view of pro-recyclers, it was clearly a success."
Laptop Parts What happened, waste industry experts say, is partly that Mr. Bloomberg reframed the debate about recycling into hard, practical financial terms. Could recycling be self-sustaining? Was it a justifiable expense in troubled times? Were there better, smarter, more economically sound ways of doing it? And the answers that emerged, again partly by pure coincidence, were all yes.
Software Before the suspension, for example, opponents of the program could argue that many recyclables, especially glass bottles, ended up in landfills anyway because there were few markets for reuse, so the city was just going through the motions of environmental policy and throwing good money after bad.
Hard Drives But after the bids last fall by Hugo Neu, those arguments no longer got much traction. The company, which has been recycling the city's metal on a temporary basis, offered the best terms on both parts of the recycling contract: for plastic and metal, to begin this July, and for plastic, metal and glass, to begin in July 2004. It said it would pay the city $5.10 a ton for metal and plastic. The next best offer came from Waste Management, the giant disposal company, which said it would take the plastic and metal for a fee of $67 a ton.
Electronics For the 2004 contract that would include glass, all the bids were negative meaning they would cost the city money but Hugo Neu's was the lowest, at $70 a ton. Disposal costs in out-of-state landfills, by contrast, have now reached about $105 a ton, up 46 percent in the last three years, according to city figures.
Canon Last week, company officials said they had recalculated the numbers since their original bid and would drop their price by $19, to $51 a ton. Hugo Neu's general manager, Robert A. Kelman, said that the price could be reduced because the company had found a partner interested in using the city's glass recyclables the hardest item to reuse for manufacturing construction materials, paving stones and other items for sale in garden centers.
Desktop Pc He said that he could not identify the glass company yet, but that it had agreed to build a factory in Hunts Point, the Bronx, which would employ about 25 people.
Desktop Computers "Our goal is that nothing goes into the landfill, and we believe we've got it," Mr. Kelman said. "With this bid it is clear that New York City can bring back all of the recycling program and save money at the same time, especially as the cost of exporting garbage continues to rise."
Think Pad City budget experts say that the suspension of recycling has also revealed just how intertwined recycling has become with what might be called New York's disposal culture. When glass and plastic recycling was halted, for example, some residents stopped sorting out their paper for recycling even though that part of the program continued. That reduced the savings from the suspension because the city already makes money recycling paper.
Repair Other variables make it hard to calculate the savings: the separate costs for collection and processing of recyclables, the changes in collection routes when the suspension took effect, fluctuating fuel prices, and the fact that several new trash processing contracts were signed during the suspension. All those higher disposal costs must be applied to the plastic, glass and additional paper now being thrown away instead of recycled.
Data Recovery Environmentalists say they are happy that recycling has shown new strength, but few are willing to give Mr. Bloomberg even an empty tuna can's worth of credit. The suspension, some say, revealed a hostility to recycling. That it may come back stronger, they add, is not a result of any bold thinking on the city's part.
Cisco "There was no wisdom in halting plastic and glass recycling last summer, and all of the positive developments on recycling in recent months have taken place in spite of the city's lack of enthusiasm for this program," said Mark A. Izeman, a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a conservation group based in Manhattan.
Keyboard Other environmental experts say that by requiring recycling to prove itself financially, Mr. Bloomberg has thrown down a challenge to the environmental community to become more practical in thinking about the whole waste disposal system. The city is working on a system of trash transfer stations, which would be built along the water to allow barge transport, and protests have already been raised about the consequences of the program on the neighborhoods around the station sites and on the city's waterfront development.
Monitor The executive director of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Marcia Bystryn, said in an interview that the time for confrontation on those issues is over. Constructive dialogue should be the new rule, she said.
Desktop "My view on this is that the environmental community has a responsibility to work with the city to put in place the most environmentally friendly and yet economically sustainable solid waste disposal system," she said. "That system entails as a core part a strong recycling program. But it also entails a constructive discourse on how the city gets rid of the rest of the garbage."
Infosys But behind all of those changes, like a ticking clock, is the budget crisis. Mr. Kelman at Hugo Neu said that the decision to improve the company's offer was partly intended to increase the pressure on the Bloomberg administration. The company needs time to prepare if the deadlines of July 1 on plastics and metal and 2004 for the whole program are to be met, he said. The company has proposed building a $15 million recycling plant in the Bronx to be ready by next year, but Mr. Kelman said the plant would take 14 months to build. For plastic recycling to start on July 1 of this year, he said, he needs every day between now and that deadline to get ready.
By Kirk Johnson
New York Times - 5/4/2003
Topic: Recycling
