NYC report finds recycling more costly than disposal.A report by the New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Independent Budget Office (IBO Ibo: see Igbo. ) estimates that the cost of collecting and processing recyclables next year will be around $206 per ton, while the estimated cost to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose refuse generated in the city will be around $167 per ton. The difference in costs between the two methods comes despite increasing costs to ship solid waste for disposal outside New York City. However, as the cost of shipping material continues to climb, the spread between the cost of recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. and disposal will narrow. A key reason for the disparity, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. report, titled "More Recycling Needed to Help Lower City's Trash Costs," is the relative inefficiency of collecting smaller amounts of recyclables. However, IBO also states that if the city is able to increase the amount of recyclables collected, the price difference would narrow even more. If the city realized a 10 percent increase in recycling tonnage TONNAGE, mar. law. The capacity of a ship or vessel. 2. The act of congress of March 2, 1799, s. 64, 1 Story's L. U. S. 630, directs that to ascertain the tonnage of any ship or vessel, the surveyor, &c. next year, the per-ton cost for collection would decrease by $11 per ton. Further, if the value of the collected paper increased by $12 per ton, the net recycling fee would decline to $38 per ton. One final issue is the potential savings that could be made by widening the number of recyclables collected. According to the IBO, adding additional plastics and other materials to the collection could increase the recyclable share of that stream significantly. More information can be found at www.recyclingtoday.com/news/ images/iboreport.pdf. The Independent Budget Office is a publicly funded agency that provides non-partisan budgetary, economic and policy analysis for the residents of the city and their elected officials. |
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