Who's really hauling
New York's trash?
NYC just handed its commercial waste to a handful of carters under the new Commercial Waste Zone law, covering roughly 200,000 businesses. nyctrash.ai is the independent data platform tracking what that's actually doing to complaints, costs, and neighborhoods.
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- ~522
- licensed carters
- 20
- commercial waste zones
- 2014→
- of 311 complaint data
- 200k
- businesses affected
The problem
The data exists. Nobody's connecting it.
Complaints live with 311. Carter licenses and fines live with the Business Integrity Commission. Health grades, zone awards, contract values, and campaign donations all live in separate silos. The small business owners, tenants, and reporters most affected by it can't see the whole picture.
We pull these public datasets together, normalize them, and make them searchable, so a bodega owner in Corona and a reporter at a city desk can ask the same question and get a real answer.
What we're building
A tool, not just another report.
Interactive complaint map
A choropleth of every commercial-waste 311 complaint in NYC, normalized per business. See which blocks and zones are actually being failed.
Carter profiles
A page for each of the ~522 licensed trade-waste carters: enforcement history, BIC fines, the zones they serve, and how their customers fare.
Bill checker
Small businesses paste in their hauling bill and find out whether they're being charged above the legal Commercial Waste Zone rate ceiling.
Data explorer
Filter complaints by zone, carter, time, and business type, then share any view with a link. Built for journalists, council staff, and researchers.
On the roadmap
The investigations coming next.
Each new public dataset we integrate unlocks a question worth answering. These are the cross-dataset stories on deck once the core platform ships.
- →Campaign-finance ↔ carter zone awards
- →Carter truck crash exposure (NYPD)
- →Worker safety & wage-theft records
- →Immigrant-neighborhood equity analysis
- →Pre-CWZ vs post-CWZ outcomes by zone
Be there when it launches.
Business owners, reporters, researchers, and reformers. Join the list and we'll send you the platform the day it goes live.