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    DSNY Waste Characterization - Comparative Results

    Metadata Updated: May 3, 2024

    The NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has conducted four waste characterization studies to date: 2005, 2013, 2017, and 2023. For each study, a representative sample of waste is sorted into distinct material categories and aggregated into statistically significant data on the composition of the City's discards. This dataset contains the change in the composition of the City's waste streams across all four studies.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date May 3, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 3, 2024

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    Harvested from NYC JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 3, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date May 3, 2024
    Publisher data.cityofnewyork.us
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/bibp-6ff7
    Data First Published 2024-05-02
    Data Last Modified 2024-05-02
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.cityofnewyork.us/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id c76be065-ece7-4628-94bf-c4090020e71a
    Harvest Source Id 1696593e-c691-4f61-a696-5dcb9e4c9b4c
    Harvest Source Title NYC JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/bibp-6ff7
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a176308afd2b31aba09907a0c0f726f6d3c0795852675e1e356531c287bdffa3
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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