NEW YORK — The New York tradition of piling bags of trash on the sidewalk for collection will soon be a thing of the past.
Since Friday, the megalopolis’s 200,000 businesses must place their bags of garbage in bins, as communities in the county and around the world have long done.
The requirement is the next step in the city’s efforts to reduce what Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has called a 24-hour “rat buffet” on sidewalks.
In August, the city began requiring restaurants, convenience stores and bars to use a sturdy trash can with a secure lid, then expanded that requirement to chain stores the following month.
From now on, all businesses in the city, including small businesses, must comply. In the fall, residential buildings with nine or fewer units will be subject to this obligation.
According to Mr. Adams, who has made rodent control a priority, commercial waste represents nearly half of the approximately 44 million pounds of waste collected each day by the city.
City officials will hand out warnings during the first month of the new rule, but will begin writing subpoenas in April, Jessica Tisch, the sanitation commissioner, warned during her media appearances Friday morning with Mr. Adams.
Joshua Goodman, a spokesman for the city’s sanitation department, said the city’s only requirement for businesses is that they use a sturdy trash can with a secure lid.
Businesses should work with their waste hauler to find out what type of trash can they should use, because business waste is collected by private haulers, not the city.
2024-03-01 16:20:45
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