NYC Council · Int 0256-2026 · Committee

Requiring the commissioner of sanitation to study the feasibility and potential environmental effects of a recycling mandate for household textiles.

Introduced

Moved

Reached a final decision

Introduced Jan 29, 2026

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Officially: “A Local Law in relation to requiring the commissioner of sanitation to study the feasibility and potential environmental effects of a recycling mandate for household textiles” Read the full text

Sanitation and Solid Waste Management

What it does

This bill would require the commissioner of sanitation to study and report on the feasibility and environmental effects of a mandate for households to separate, and the department of sanitation to collect, textile waste. The study would consider, among other things, the costs, potential benefits, and potential negative effects of such a mandate.

Summary written by City Council staff, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite with cited sections coming. Not legal advice.

Where it is

Introduced by Council · Jan 29, 2026

Referred to Comm by Council · Jan 29, 2026 · the latest recorded action

Who decides next

This bill sits with the Sanitation and Solid Waste Management committee. These members decide whether it ever reaches a vote; 99% of bills a committee approves become law.

Justin E. Sanchez · chair Carl Wilson Farah N. Louis Inna Vernikov Kayla Santosuosso Sandra Ung Shahana K. Hanif Shanel Thomas-Henry Susan Zhuang Ty Hankerson Virginia Maloney

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