Requires further source separation of certain waste which is eligible to be redeemed under the provisions of the environmental conservation law relating to beverages which are redeemable for cash in cities with a population of one million or more.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8032
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to requiring
further source separation of waste in cities with a population of one
million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 120-aa of the general municipal law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Pursuant to the authority of this section, no later than the first
4 of September two thousand twenty-nine, each city with a population of
5 one million or more residents shall adopt such a local law or ordinance
6 to require that solid waste which has been left for collection shall be
7 separated not only as otherwise required by this section, but that such
8 waste which is eligible to be redeemed under title ten of article twen-
9 ty-seven of the environmental conservation law is separated from other
10 recyclable, reusable, or otherwise marketable components.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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