{"id":317960,"date":"2026-08-10T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:46:08","slug":"audit-finds-issue-with-n-y-states-waste-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317960\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit finds issue with N.Y. state&#8217;s waste reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/files\/state-agencies\/audits\/pdf\/sga-2026-24s28.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">audit<\/a> from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says the state has an issue tracking how much waste is recycled.<\/p>\n<p>According to the audit, the state Department of Environmental Conservation did not receive a third of the required annual reports from recycling facilities. Of those reports that were filed, officials say nearly two-thirds were missing information needed to determine how much material was actually recycled.<\/p>\n<p>Auditors also found 35% of registered and permitted recycling facilities weren&#8217;t inspected during a three-year review period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReliable recycling data is essential to understanding how much waste is being diverted from landfills and incinerators through recycling,\u201d DiNapoli said in a statement. \u201cIf recycling data is incomplete or inaccurate, the state can\u2019t effectively evaluate whether recycling efforts are working or track their impact in reducing waste and its environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audit recommends the state DEC improve data reporting and verification, strengthen inspections and better document follow-up. The state DEC responded that it would make changes to remedy the issues, but disputed some of the audit&#8217;s claims of reporting problems.<\/p>\n<p>The state DEC says solid waste accounts for about 12% of New York\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An audit from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli says the state has an issue tracking how much&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3242,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,380],"class_list":["post-317960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-environment","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}