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Department of Sanitation
Critical Objectives

	Increase street and sidewalk cleanliness and the number of cleaned vacant lots. Clear snow from City streets and roadways. Collect and dispose of household and institutional refuse. Remove and process recyclable materials. Minimize the environmental impact of waste transfer stations on City neighborhoods and residents.

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Sanitation Department, Service Indicators - New York City

		2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total full-time employees (as of June 30)		10,166	10,034	9,086	9,349	9,581	9,758	9,845	9,802	9,723
	Uniformed employees	7,944	7,821	7,146	7,452	7,619	7,733	7,758	7,690	7,612
	Civilian employees	2,222	2,213	1,940	1,897	1,962	2,025	2,087	2,112	2,111

Percent of all streets rated acceptably clean		85.90%	84.20%	85.4%	89.8%	91.5%	93.10%	94.30%	95.7%	95.8%
Annual tons disposed (000)		3,516.3	3,360.0	3,799.2	3,772.2	3,588.6	3,559.3	3,491.4	3,441.3	3,306.7
Tons per day disposed		11,678	11,087	12,580	12,448	11,882	11,786	11,561	11,433	10,986
Annual tons recycles (000)		2,083	1,869	1,829	2,081	2,103	1,691	1,697	1,922	1,683
Recycled tons per day		6,677	5,990	5,863	6,544	6,742	5,419	5,438	6,160	5,394
Number of chlorofluorocarbon/freon recoveries		76,266	95,629	99,613	136,179	133,050	130,863	83,654	49,043	34,327
Snow overtime (000)		23,900	3,685	21,582	16,378	22,153	19,007	21,140	6,124	16,874


Source:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/downloads/pdf/2005_mmr/0905_mmr.pdf pg.167
http://www.nyc.gov/html/ops/downloads/pdf/2009_mmr/0909_mmr.pdf pg.127

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