The deal with the New York City Department of Sanitation comes amid efforts by NYCHA, NYU and neighborhood groups to get garbage off the sidewalk and into rat-proof containers.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2022.New York's long-stalled plans to test the use of containers to eliminate the daily mountains of trash bags on sidewalks are gaining momentum, with the city commissioning a multimillion-dollar study and two of the biggest property owners launching garbage bin pilot programs.
“There was a body of work done… [with] a lot of these ideas that is sitting there, and could easily be looked at again,” Nurse said. “Hiring McKinsey seems a little unnecessary at best. The city should be developing this kind of expertise in-house, at city agencies.” who live in NYCHA’s 177,569 apartments could have their trash collected in bins instead of navigating sidewalks piled high with garbage and recycling bags.
Questions about where to put the bins have hampered progress. Placing bins in the roadway would mean giving up parking spaces in a city that’s beento do so, while storing them on the sidewalk would impede pedestrians. Other logistical challenges involve whether the bins should open from the top or the side and weatherization. Unlike bins used in European cities like Paris and Barcelona, New York City bins will have to account for snow and colder weather.
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