Beyond Waste: A Sustainable Material Management Strategy
A decade after the last biennial update of the 1987 Solid Waste Management Plan, DEC has just completed a newly revised Plan that maintains the essence of the 1988 priorities while acknowledging the need for greater progress in reducing the amount of waste New Yorkers dispose of every year. Beyond Waste describes how materials are currently managed in New York and proposes many new ways for state and local government, businesses, and individual citizens to move toward a more sustainable approach, thereby reducing greenhouse gases, reducing pollution, saving energy, and creating new green jobs. The Plan sets out a twenty year goal of reducing the average amount of waste that New Yorkers dispose of from 4.1 to 0.6 pounds per person, per day.
The plan has been broken into parts for easy downloading:
- Final Beyond Waste Full Report (PDF) (4.3 MB) - revised version posted 12/27/10
- Final Beyond Waste Appendices A-B (PDF) (936 KB)
- Final Beyond Waste Appendix C (PDF) (7 MB)
- Final Beyond Waste Appendices D-F (PDF) (971 KB)
- Final Beyond Waste Appendices G-I (PDF) (874 KB)
- Final Beyond Waste Appendices J-M (PDF) (429 KB)
Supplemental Documents:
- Final GEIS (PDF) (570 KB)
- Responsiveness Summary (PDF) (2 MB)
- Draft GEIS (PDF) (446 KB)
