The City Council voted 32-13 today to reduce trash processing in North Brooklyn, southeast Queens, and the South Bronx, relieving the disproportionate burden of garbage truck traffic on those neighborhoods.
Council sanitation chair Reynoso and his colleagues want the BIC to revoke the operating license of Sanitation Salvage, which has been involved in two fatalities since November.
The Business Integrity Commission has regulatory power over private waste carters, but has failed to hold Sanitation Salvage accountable for its abhorrent safety record.