Recycling on Long Island has decreased from 29% to 24% from 1998 to 2009
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
Recycling on Long Island has seen a marked decrease of some 20 percent over the past decade, according to a study conducted by Stony Brook Universitys Department of Technology and Society and the Waste Reduction and Management Institute in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook (SoMAS). The study, Recycling on Long Island 2009: A report on municipal programs in Nassau and Suffolk Counties represents a complete accounting of Town-based municipal recycling in both Nassau and Suffolk Counties, and found that from 1998 to 2009 recycling on Long Island decreased from 29 percent to 24 percent. Suffolks overall rate was 27 percent, while Nassaus was only 20 percent.