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The law was meant to keep trash collection companies from sending crews on long routes across multiple boroughs — a practice that had led to aAfter years of delays, the sanitation department plans to pilot the regulations in a single district in Queens this fall before it rolls out the initiative citywide.
“The city has missed opportunities to execute on the spirit of the legislation and undermined the program’s immediate potential,” he said. “There is a reason the legislation never envisioned a pilot. The program’s transformative nature comes from its ability to overhaul commercial waste broadly and deeply once and for all.”
Sanitation department spokesperson Vincent Gragnani said outreach to businesses won’t begin until 90 days before the regulations go into effect in each zone. The department issued a request for bids on a $1.5 million contract to help with the outreach one day after Tauber’s remarks.