Brendan Sexton, a Pioneer of Recycling, Is Dead at 78

November 18, 2023/ SAM ROBERTS / Environment, Journalism, New York Times

Published by The New York Times Science & Environment

As New York City’s sanitation commissioner, he began the mandatory program to separate garbage. He also hired the department’s first uniformed women.

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