STATE OF NEW YORK
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4059
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the public buildings law and the parks, recreation and
historic preservation law, in relation to requiring all public build-
ings and all parks, recreation and historic preservation sites have
bins for recyclable and compostable materials
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public buildings law is amended by adding a new section
2 148 to read as follows:
3 § 148. Bins for recyclable and compostable materials. A covered
4 public building shall establish and implement a program for the
5 collection of recyclable and compostable materials that are discarded in
6 such building. Such recyclable materials shall include, but not be
7 limited to, metal, plastic, glass and paper. Such compostable materials
8 shall include, but not be limited to, food scraps, tree and brush trim-
9 mings, leaves, and other compostable materials. In each such building
10 there shall be installed bins for the collection of recyclable materials
11 and bins for the collection of compostable materials. Such bins shall
12 be alongside any undesignated waste bins and any bins for non-recycla-
13 ble, non-compostable waste. A bin designated for recyclable materials
14 shall be regularly collected and the recyclable materials within recy-
15 cled. A bin designated for compostable materials shall be regularly
16 collected and the contents within composted.
17 § 2. Subdivision 23 of section 3.09 of the parks, recreation and
18 historic preservation law, as added by chapter 312 of the laws of 2017,
19 is amended to read as follows:
20 23. Establish and implement a program for the collection of recyclable
21 and compostable materials that are discarded in state parks, state
22 historic sites and state recreational facilities. Such recyclable mate-
23 rials shall include, but not be limited to, metal, plastic, glass and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 paper. Such compostable materials shall include, but not be limited to,
2 food scraps, tree and brush trimmings, leaves, and other compostable
3 materials. In each such park, historic site and recreational facility
4 the office shall install bins for the collection of recyclable materials
5 and bins for the collection of compostable materials. Such bins shall be
6 alongside any undesignated waste bins and any bins for non-recyclable,
7 non-compostable waste. The office shall regularly collect and provide
8 for the recycling of the recyclable materials collected and shall regu-
9 larly collect and provide for the composting of compostable materials
10 collected.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
12 it shall have become a law.
