QUESTION
What is the plan for expanding and improving the smart composting bin program in New York City?
1:05:08
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The Department of Sanitation is replacing inserts in existing smart composting bins to increase their capacity.
- The larger inserts will allow the bins to hold significantly more compost.
- The bins that get filled the quickest will receive the new inserts first.
- This should provide immediate relief for overflowing bins this summer.
- However, there is no budget currently to add new smart composting bin locations.
- The Department is considering moving underutilized bins to areas with overflowing bins.
Julie Menin
1:05:08
I wanna echo the concerns that have been previously raised by the chair and others about the $7,000,000 cuts which my community strongly opposes.
1:05:18
I am getting inundated with emails, texts, phone calls about this issue from residents on the east side of Manhattan And Roosevelt Island who are really concerned about the cuts, so I just want to reiterate are strong concerns about that.
1:05:33
On smart composting bins, in terms of an expansion to those bins, when do you believe that that could occur?
1:05:41
The bins in my district are full, like, almost immediately, and so I just wanna get a better understanding of what the agency's plan.
Jessica Tisch
1:05:48
So we're doing 2 things with the smart composting bins.
1:05:51
First is we are changing out replacing the inserts in the bin to make them larger, to take up more of that orange shell.
1:06:02
So that they have significantly more capacity than they currently do.
1:06:07
And we're starting with the bins.
1:06:09
We're starting those replacements with the bins that get full quickest.
1:06:14
So there, you'll see some, I think, immediate relief this summer.
1:06:21
We don't have budget at this time to add new or to expand the number of smart composting bins that we have, which is now currently at about 400 bins.
1:06:35
But we are right now contemplating moving some bins that are highly underutilized.
1:06:43
They're not opened frequently at all to places where the bins are getting full.
