“New Yorkers deserve clean, safe and vibrant neighborhood streets,” Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch wrote in the report. The report also said that high-density neighborhoods like the Financial District and Downtown Brooklyn will not be able to have street container bins. Some areas could lose up to 18% of street parking spaces, according to the report.įor neighborhoods with lower population densities, like those in eastern Queens and Staten Island, the city aims to to rely on individual household bins for garbage collection that do not take up street space. The report estimates that roughly 10% of the city’s 1.5 million residential street parking spaces would need to be replaced with containers in order to roll out the plan. There are trucks in European cities that could do the job, but sanitation officials wrote “they do not meet federal, state, and local emissions and safety standards so they cannot be imported for domestic use.” with “side loaders” that could lift bins so heavy in a city as dense as New York. The report states there is no model of truck in the U.S. Those bins could be picked up by garbage trucks with mechanical arms on their sides, a shift from the city’s current trucks where Sanitation workers toss bags into rear. Sanitation officials laid out a vision where large shared garbage bins take up street parking spaces in many of the city's densely populated neighborhoods. The report, titled “Future of Trash,” released by the sanitation department lays out the possibility - and challenges - in reforming how the city’s 44 million pounds of trash are collected each day. Rave is an instant classic, a coming-of-age story about the secret spaces young women create and the wider social structures that fail them.New York City’s mountains of trash bags could be stored in European-style shared containers instead of languishing on sidewalks - but officials said in a report released Wednesday that a new type of garbage truck must be created for the idea to work. She captures teenage antics and banter with astute comedic style, simultaneously skewering bullies, a culture of slut-shaming, and the devastating impact of religious zealotry. Author Jessica Campbell (XTC69) uses frankness and dark humour to articulate Lauren's burgeoning crisis of faith and sexuality. Afterward, a potent blend of Christian guilt and internalised homophobia causes Lauren to question the experience. That evening, Mariah gives Lauren a makeover and the two melt into each other, in what becomes Lauren's first queer encounter. Mariah has dial-up internet, an absentee mom, and a Wiccan altar-the perfect setting for a study session and sleepover to remember. She's a devout member of an evangelical church, but when her Bible-thumping parents forbid Lauren to bring evolution textbooks home, she opts to study at her schoolmate Mariah's house. Lauren is fifteen, soft-spoken, and ashamed of her body.

Rave by Jessica Campbell