NYC Commercial Waste Zones: What Changes for Your Bag Procurement

New York City is reassigning commercial waste collection zone by zone under Local Law 199. Brooklyn North and Upper Manhattan are in transition now. What the switch means for setout specs, bag sizing and purchasing.

If your business pays a private carter to collect its waste in New York City, the arrangement you have had for years is being replaced. The Commercial Waste Zone program, established by Local Law 199 of 2019, divides the city into zones and assigns a small number of authorized carters to each one. It is rolling out borough by borough, and for several neighborhoods the deadline is weeks away rather than someday. Most coverage of the program focuses on price and service. Less has been said about t...

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