Press Coverage
Our relationships with journalists are crucial in securing invaluable press coverage for our work. Here’s a selection of the most recent:
PRIVATE TRASH CARTERS ON ROAD TO MISSING EMISSIONS UPGRADE DEADLINE
October 25, 2019
Media interest has picked up in the horrific impacts of New York’s wild-west private trash industry, as a vote looms next Wednesday, Oct. 30, on the fantastic reform measures proposed by NYLPI and our allies in the “Transform-Don’t-Trash-NYC” coalition …
Crain’s Gives Seal Of Approval To Landmark Waste Reform Legislation
October 21, 2019
Crain’s, the publication for New York business, has run an unprecedented editorial today endorsing legislation negotiated with the Transform Don’t Trash NYC Coalition to overhaul the commercial sanitation industry through commercial waste zones. The Tr …
Deal Reached to Transform Commercial Waste Collection to Protect Workers, Communities, and Environment
October 10, 2019
Today the New York City Council announced amended legislation negotiated with the Transform Don’t Trash NYC coalition to overhaul the commercial sanitation industry through commercial waste zones. The updated commercial waste zone legislation includes …
Waste Report: New York’s Poorer neighborhoods are getting dumped on
October 8, 2019
New York City is undermining its major investments in solid waste and recycling infrastructure by allowing the private commercial waste industry to massively increase its reliance on trucking of commercial waste, according to a new report out today by …
Clean up this rotten industry now: A private sanitation worker demands reform
September 23, 2019
The New York Daily News ran a powerful opinion piece by sanitation worker Alex Amante this morning, in support of NYLPI’s work with the Transform Don’t Trash Coalition to clean up the private sanitation industry in New York City: My first day as a priv …