EcycleNYC E-Waste Pickups Suspended as DSNY Suffers Its First COVID-19 Fatality
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the suspension of citywide e-waste collections from New York apartment buildings under the ecycleNYC takeback program, emailed the Department of Sanitation of New York Tuesday. “Collection requests will be saved in our system and you will…
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be contacted once we resume,” said DSNY. Amid the higher volume of household garbage generated by New York’s stay-at-home orders, DSNY also is working shorthanded due to the 330-plus employees who tested positive for the coronavirus through Tuesday, said the department. DSNY suffered its first COVID-19 fatality when Raymond Copeland, 46, a sanitation worker in Queens, died Sunday of coronavirus complications.