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Philadelphia seeks $190 million for sanitation in FY27, aims to institutionalize Clean & Green programs
Summary
City sanitation officials told City Council the FY27 budget request would stabilize and scale proven Clean & Green initiatives — including Future Track workforce placements, twice-weekly collection expansions and illegal-dumping crews — while funding pilots to increase recycling and organics diversion.
Philadelphia sanitation leaders asked City Council Wednesday to approve a FY27 operating budget that they say will convert recent pilots into permanent, citywide services while investing in enforcement and waste-diversion pilots.
Carlton Williams, director of the Office of Clean and Green, told the Committee of the Whole the administration’s FY27 request “marks a pivot from building and implementing multiple new and expanding clean and green initiatives to sustained transformation of city conditions going forward.” Williams cited what he described as measurable gains from recent years: “During fiscal year 2026 alone, over a dozen government and quasi government agencies worked together to clean 20,000 streets and address more than 150,000 quality of life actions across the city.”…
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