Upon request, the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) will consider links to any site that, in the Department's opinion, provides useful resources consistent with the Department's mission, which is to promote a healthy environment for the City of New York through the management of municipal solid waste.

Consideration of any external links is subject to the following criteria:

• The link must be to the official site of a government entity, a private organization in waste management or a related field whose work is generally recognized as being relevant to and consistent with DSNY's mission, or businesses that provide sanitation services that are regulated by the City of New York or other public entities. In exceptional cases, other sites of special significance and value will be considered.
• Sites whose content is political in nature or whose content is not primarily sanitation-related will not be accepted.
• Sites should not easily link (i.e., a site is linked from the index of a requesting site's home page) to inappropriate sites (e.g., information regarding illegal activities or pornography, or sites with excessive negative commentary).
• Sites should not contain content written by many different people (e.g., student sites, chat rooms, interactive bulletin boards, etc.) which are not properly moderated or edited by the host.

To Request a Link, write to:

Deputy Commissioner for Public Information and Community Affairs
Department of Sanitation
125 Worth Street, Room 714
New York, NY 10013

When a request to link is received, the Department of Sanitation will review the site against its adopted criteria and will notify the requesting party if the request is accepted. Sites that are linked from the DSNY web site are reviewed periodically to confirm that the link policy criteria are still being met.