Action Carting Environmental Services, Inc
Lobbying client
Action Carting Environmental Services, also branded Action Environmental, is a commercial waste and recycling hauler serving all five boroughs as a subsidiary of Interstate Waste Services, and it was awarded more zones than any other hauler under the city's Commercial Waste Zones system, 14 of the city's 20 zones plus a citywide containerized-waste license. Since 2024 it has filed 13 lobbying disclosures, lobbying all 51 council members through The Elk Street Group on Commercial Waste Zone rules and truck-idling regulation, and it has held $136.6 million in city contracts since 2009, with $20,644 active as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 13
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $125,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $20,644 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $136,635,892 · 16 since 2009, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $100,965,323
- Won without a fresh bid
- 38% of contract value · $51,708,109 · 6 contracts
- Based in
- Newark, NJ (out of state)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- The Elk Street Group, LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
- Department of Environmental Protection City agency
- Department of Homeless Services City agency
- Department of Transportation City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Environmental Protection City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Commercial Waste Zones Idling regulation Waste and recycling issues (NYC)
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Commercial Waste Zones Idling regulation Waste and recycling issues in NYC
- Local Legislation (including introduction) - Commercial Waste Zones NYC Idling
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- Rebid: DHS Recycling Waste Pickup Department of Homeless Services · CT107120270000783 $20,644
- TRANSP & DISPOSAL SERVICES - HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620161428578 · ended 2019 $47,179,460
- TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL SERVICE FOR NYC-BIO Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620151402552 · ended 2017 $35,445,150
- T&D OF BIOSOLIDS FOR GROUP 2- HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620201406226 · ended 2022 $32,952,973
- TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES FOR NYC-BIO Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620151400016 · ended 2015 $10,324,354
- TRANSPORTATION & DISPOSAL SERVICES FOR NYC BIOSOLIDS Department of Environmental Protection · CT182620141413516 · ended 2014 $4,262,321
- TRANSPORTATION & DISPOSAL SERVICES FOR CONST. WASTE MATERIAL Department of Transportation · CT184120131402631 · ended 2014 $2,227,500
- Dumpster Waste Removal Services Department of Education · MA104020119173896 · ended 2011 $1,940,961
- TRANSP & DISPOSAL SERV. FOR CONSTRUCTION WASTE Department of Transportation · CT184120161403094 · ended 2016 $1,113,750
- TRANSP. & DISPOSAL SERV. FOR CONSTRUCTION WASTE MATERIAL Department of Transportation · CT184120151410563 · ended 2015 $1,113,750
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- T&D OF BIOSOLIDS FOR GROUP 2- HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · FY2021 · 13 payments $10,936,760
- T&D OF BIOSOLIDS FOR GROUP 2- HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · FY2022 · 12 payments $9,673,242
- T&D OF BIOSOLIDS FOR GROUP 2- HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · FY2020 · 6 payments $6,399,532
- TRANSP & DISPOSAL SERVICES - HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · FY2020 · 3 payments $1,817,460
- T&D OF BIOSOLIDS FOR GROUP 2- HUNTS POINT & BOWERY BAY Department of Environmental Protection · FY2023 · 3 payments $1,565,189
- Transportation of Biosolids Department of Environmental Protection · FY2023 $184,998
- Transportation of Biosolids Department of Environmental Protection · FY2024 $63,595
- Transportation of Biosolids Department of Environmental Protection · FY2022 $59,190