While it made another pickup of commercial trash at a shopping mall, he sneaked into the mall's covered parking garage.

The city says they are spoken for, respectively handling recycling and commercial trash.

"Now he needs to get a plan for the other half, which is commercial trash."

Any purchaser of commercial trash hauling between 1992 and 2001 may be eligible to receive payment.

Both sides fear any effort that would upset the current system, in which private haulers take commercial trash and city workers take everything else.

The city estimates that the recycling rate on commercial trash, which is collected by private haulers.

The city generates 50,000 tons of household and commercial trash each day, with part of it being recycled.

About 12,000 tons is commercial trash, which is recycled or disposed of by private companies.

In 1956, the city hastily turned to private contractors instead of the Sanitation Department to pick up commercial trash.

Mr. Miller contends that the site is large enough for residential and commercial trash.