Jump to main content.  PAYT Bulletin: Winter 2003  The PAYT
Bulletin is designed to help solid waste planners and others get
the latest pay-as-you-throw news and events. Use the links below
to read articles from the Winter 2003 issue. To review other
issues of the Bulletin, use the links on the right side of this
page.  Multipurpose Righted  Could PAYT Offer Hope for New York
City's Recycling Program?  In the city that never sleeps, waste
production never ends. More than 7.5 million people live in New
York City, and residents produce an average of 14,000 tons of
trash each day. According to action group NYC WasteLe$$, city
residents dispose of enough paper bags each year to line the
Brooklyn Bridge 170,000 times and enough plastic grocery bags to
line the Lincoln Tunnel 80,000 times.  Image of Empire State
Building  With budget-related cutbacks putting New York City's
recycling program in jeopardy, some observers have pointed out
that PAYT could be a viable alternative or supplement to tax-
funded trash collec