{"id":325019,"date":"2026-08-19T16:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T16:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:16:09","slug":"new-york-city-has-a-500-million-trash-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325019\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Has a $500 Million Trash Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt-desktop\">New York City handles 3 million tons of municipal waste each year, much of it shipped to out-of-state landfills at a cost of $500 million. Can the city can modernize its costly trash system? <a class=\"read-more-main-single read-more-main\" href=\"https:\/\/collive.com\/new-york-city-has-a-500-million-trash-problem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Full Story, Video<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The City of New York handles nearly 3 million tons of municipal waste every year. <\/p>\n<p>The majority of that gets shipped to landfills outside the city, costing taxpayers around $500 million every year. <\/p>\n<p>But the Sanitation Department wants to modernize New York\u2019s outdated trash system \u2014 can they? <\/p>\n<p>To find out, The Wall Street Journal asked an expert in environmental policy.<\/p>\n<p>                    <a href=\"https:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/EeU5Vt0j6PPGMXHt0itb3F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n                      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/join_our_whatsapp_.gif\"\/><br \/>\n                      <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City handles 3 million tons of municipal waste each year, much of it shipped to out-of-state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-325019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325019","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=325019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}