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NYC to Contractors: We Want To Get Serious About Trash Containerization
Forget about the small-ball (and bin!) pilots. This is the Big Kehuna — a 'scalable' pilot that will modify 'sanitation fleets and staffing practices.'
August 22, 2022
After an Epic Fail, the City Relaunches Residential Composting
The Sanitation Department will begin universal organics pick-up in one borough — Queens — on Oct. 3. Will it work this time?
August 8, 2022
GROSS: ‘Clean Curbs’ Bins Show Growing Pains in Times Square
The Sanitation Department's "Clean Curbs" pilot — trash enclosures in Times Square that were installed a mere three months ago — is a bit of a mess.
July 20, 2022
EXCLUSIVE: ‘Clean Curbs’ Residential Bins To Launch in Hells Kitchen
A quiet block of W. 45th St. becomes a laboratory for shaving New York's '5 o'clock shadow.'
June 27, 2022
Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
May 10, 2022
OPINION: It’s Time To Mandate Composting Citywide
Small waste programs in underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods show it can be done, argues the Council's Sanitation Committee chairwoman.
May 5, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: Garbage Humor Edition
Our friends at Transportation Alternatives are equally obsessed with what we've been calling "New York's 5 o'clock shadow": the mounds of big black plastic garbage bags that cover the sidewalk. Plus other news.
May 2, 2022
TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Further Delays on Commercial Waste Zones
They don't trust them as far as they can throw them.
May 2, 2022
City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?
April 21, 2022
Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures
The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.
April 19, 2022
