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Council Member Sandy Nurse discusses Intro 784 on grease tracking system
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Council Member Sandy Nurse provides an overview of Intro 784, which would require the Business Integrity Commission to establish a tracking system for yellow and brown grease. She highlights the problems caused by improper grease disposal and presents statistics on related complaints across NYC boroughs.
- Nurse discusses a pilot program that tracked grease waste and its potential for conversion to biogas.
- She emphasizes the potential for more efficient waste streams and expresses interest in hearing the administration's feedback on the bill.
- This is noted as the second time the bill has been heard in about four years.
Sandy Nurse
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Thanks chair.
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Good morning, everyone.
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Intro seven eight four would require the business integrity commission to establish a tracking system for yellow and brown grease.
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When grease is improperly disposed of, it ends up in our sewers and congealed to cause massive clogging in the form of fatbergs.
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In the last five years, there have been over nine hundred three one one complaints relating to grease in sewers and catch basins.
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Queens County received the most three one one complaints for grease in sewers and catch basements with three twenty three followed by Brooklyn with two sixty five, Manhattan one hundred 70 four, and Bronx 1 Hundred 9, Staten Island with 35.
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Greece doesn't have to end up in our sewers.
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In 2022, waste management, the Department of Environmental Protection and Veriflux conducted a four month citywide pilot that tracked the waste to energy supply chain of Greece.
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The pilot tracked a hundred truckloads which picked up waste from nearly 600 businesses and calculated that they diverted over 3,500,000 pounds of solid and liquid food waste in the form of grease trap waste and food scraps from the landfill to bio gas.
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According to the report, the pilot program demonstrates the feasibility and value of traceable data to support New York City to divert solid and liquid food waste from landfills and convert it into renewable energy.
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While not a perfect solution, this pilot does illustrate illustrate how our waste streams can become more efficient.
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I believe this is the second time we are hearing this bill in about four years and I look forward to hearing the administration's feedback on it.
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Thank you.
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Thank you chair.