solid waste management
Streetsblog California
A NY Plan to Cut Truck Traffic By Changing How Trash Haulers Do Business
In the past five years, at least six New Yorkers have been killed, and many others injured, by truck drivers working for private trash haulers. Labor and environmental advocates have a plan they say will reduce these deaths by cutting down on inefficiencies in private trucking routes. They are meeting resistance from the waste hauling industry, which says safety can be improved without changing the current system of contracting.
June 9, 2015