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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION
COMMERCIAL WASTE ZONES
INTRODuCTION
24th St. Brooklyn Number of Customers
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Number of Carters
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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION
COMMERCIAL WASTE ZONES
INTRODuCTION
55th Dr. Queens
Commercial Waste Collection Today
Number of Customers
58TH ST.
14
Number of Carters
11
55TH DR.
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NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF SANITATION
COMMERCIAL WASTE ZONES
INTRODuCTION
FIGURE 5 Bay St. Staten Island
Overlapping Carter Activity in All39Five Boroughs
Number of Customers
Every night, more than 90 operational carters pick up refuse, recyclables, and organics from businesses in New York City. Establishments ranging from restaurants and retailers to office buildings and hospitals rely on private carters to collect their waste and keep their businesses running smoothly. New Yorkers also rely on these same companies to help keep their streets clean and garbage free.
Overlapping operations from different carters lead to an excess of truck
Number of in Carters AVE. traffic local areas. This is true for commercial streets in all five boroughs.
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TN 7For example, trucks from nineCHESdifferent companies will make stops on a two
block stretch of 24th Street in Brooklyn to service 11 businesses. . Each dot color represents a different carter making a collection stop. LVD LAN
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HY The photograph on pages 16-17 shows a single strip mall serviced by five different carting companies.
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Number of Customers
BROADWAY
W 57th St. Manhattan 122 W 57
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Number of Carters
ST.
8TH
AVE.
26
However, these private carters operate in a disorganized market plagued by inefficiency. In some parts of the city, more than 50 carters service a single neighborhood, and an individual commercial block may see dozens of private waste collection trucks on a given night. Figure 1 shows the number of private carters that service customers in each community district.
FIGURE 1
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Number of Customers
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Number of Carters
10 E 13
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14
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Number of private carters servicing customers in each Community District
19
32 32
Based on 2016-2017 BIC Customer Register
In some parts of the city, more than 50 carters service a single neighborhood, and an individual commercial block may see dozens of private waste collection trucks on a given night.
48 52 49
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49 47 42
37 47
27 25 49 49
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30 39 36 24 28 42 34 32 33 29 32 31 31 25
54 Carters
16 14 Carters
15
25 25
25
37
36 33 40
27 29
24 33
54
43
Number of carters per zone
28
18
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