There has been a push for councils just to get their tonnages up and collect it all together.
But truck tonnage inches up, as does traffic volume (pdf).
On Long Island, Robert Wesolowski, owner and president of Melville Snow Contractors, a 200-truck private company that clears roads and parking lots for many government and commercial properties, said that new state restrictions on truck tonnage also drive up the cost.
The trucking industry has worked its way through a glut of capacity, and tonnage is heading up, currently running about 3% over last year.
Only limited modifications were possible due to technical constraints imposed by the need to keep displacement low and insufficient funds to effect a major reconstruction to free up tonnage for other uses.
19 natural substances in the INCI list are registered according to REACH with annual production tonnage bands up to 100,000 to 1,000,000 t/a (Table 5).
"I would think it has something to do with the fact that the June number was low and there was some catch-up tonnage coming through," said Graeme Train, analyst with Macquarie in Shanghai.
The bluefin is nearing collapse, and its abundant misfortune is passed on to countless other creatures — the unwanted fish, turtles and seabirds killed as bycatch, the immense tonnage of smaller fish vacuumed up to fatten captured bluefin in Mediterranean "farms".
"Let's imagine this: On the nightly news every day, there's a Waste Watch," she said, and then affected a news anchor's stentorian tone: " 'Well, we see East Queens seems to be up in tonnage this week for reasons we can't quite discern, whereas Brooklyn in the northwest quadrant has reduced its solid-waste generation by a staggering fifteen per cent since a month ago".
