Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about garbage

Penned in: New Yorkers routinely have to navigate cramped sidewalks thanks to garbage taking up space. File photo: Kevin Duggan

Sanitation Restaurant Trash Plan Threatens to Gobble Up More Sidewalk: Advocates

By Kevin Duggan | May 25, 2023 | No Comments

New York City's already crowded sidewalks could get even more clogged under a new proposal to let restaurants leave trash cans out at all hours — spurring some advocates to call on the city to have eateries instead leave waste receptacles in the street.

This kind of side-loading truck in Barcelona is not available in the United States ... yet. Photo: DSNY

Sanitation: Trash Containerization Can Be Done With a Historic Reuse of Parking; Pilot to Start This Fall

By Kevin Duggan | May 3, 2023 | No Comments

The city can containerize its trash — and it will start testing that theory in Upper Manhattan.

NYCHA's Coney Island development on Surf Avenue. Photo: Google Maps.

NYCHA Trash Containerization Set to Launch in Coney Island

By Kevin Duggan | Apr 27, 2023 | No Comments

The city's plan to test containerized residential garbage collection at public housing developments will roll out in Brooklyn's Coney Island section, likely next year, according to the New York City Housing Authority.

Note the lack of black bags. Rendering: Center for Zero Waste Design

Vanderbilt Avenue Open Street Could Be Model for Trash Containerization: Report

By Kevin Duggan | Mar 28, 2023 | No Comments

The Vanderbilt Avenue open street in Brooklyn could become a blueprint for how the city can finally containerize its trash for collection, a new analysis reveals.

What sidewalks look like everywhere in the city (left) vs. what they look like on W. 45th Street. Photos: Kevin Duggan

Eyes on the Street: Trash Containerization Keeps Sidewalk Clear, But More Boxes Needed

By Kevin Duggan | Feb 3, 2023 | No Comments

The Sanitation Department's pilot project to collect residential garbage from containers on one city block has successfully kept the sidewalk clear of the usual mountains of garbage bags, but the city must add more boxes to fit all the trash.

Then-Council Member Antonio Reynoso reached a deal with the city in 2019 to reform the private carting industry by creating zones with a maximum of three haulers assigned to each. Photo: Antonio Reynoso

EXCLUSIVE: Adams Administration Has Delayed Commercial Waste Reform That’s Required by Law

By Julianne Cuba | Jan 27, 2023 | No Comments

A law requiring an overhaul of the rogue private carting industry has been thwarted by the Adams administration — and the person who has spearheaded the program left the Department of Sanitation several months ago in “frustration," multiple sources told Streetsblog.

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