Q&A
Addressing concerns about illegal dumping and enforcement strategies
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Council Member Julie Won raises concerns about illegal dumping and enforcement strategies, particularly in relation to BIDs. Commissioner Jessica Tisch explains the approach to enforcement and addressing these issues.
- Tisch recommends locking bins to prevent illegal dumping, similar to residential models and practices of larger BIDs
- Summonses will be based on observed actions, not just the presence of improperly disposed trash
- If a vendor is observed leaving a bag, the summons goes to the vendor, not the BID
- BIDs will only be held responsible for actions of their own staff
- This approach aims to ensure BIDs are not unfairly penalized for trash they didn't generate
Julie Won
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Bids next question is bids frequently witness street vendors and other businesses and or residents improperly disposing bags into the public receptacles.
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Which bids may bag up as part of the supplemental sanitation services?
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How will the city separate out this trash from other public trash when issuing a summons or illegal dumping, which we also see very often on the street trash cans?
Jessica Tisch
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I don't I don't maybe I'm not understanding the question, but I don't envision very much will will change.
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Can you clarify what you're
Julie Won
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asking?
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So, for example, all throughout Long Island City, we see very often that people are illegally dumping into the onto the street trash cans, like, into the butter bins.
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And for them, they can have if they purchase a container, they could their bid will be bagging them up.
Jessica Tisch
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Okay.
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But sometimes people
Julie Won
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will also just add their own household scraps.
Jessica Tisch
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So what we're doing I recommend what we're doing on the residential model and what the Times Square Alliance does and what the downtown Alliance does, which is Mhmm.
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Lock the bin.
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The so that the bins can only be accessed by bid staff.
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Yes.
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That's why we're ensuring that there is no illegal dumping, for example, in residential, bins.
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That's how the Times Square Alliance ensures that they don't have illegal dumping in
Julie Won
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their bins.
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So not in the containers, but in the scenario that there are containers, we have figured out how to pay for them, for the bids, but if somebody else illegally throws a trash bag of their household trash and it's on the sidewalk instead of them instead of in the container, which is not something that they can constantly surveil.
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How will you know who to how will you know who to summon?
Jessica Tisch
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We will write summonses not based on the existence of the bag, but based on an observation of who is leaving the bag.
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So if it is a vendor leaving the bag, the summons doesn't go to the bid.
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It goes to the the vendor.
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But if it is vendor staff if it is vendor's if it is bid staff leaving the bag, that that's how you ensure that the bids don't get dinged for trash that is not, of their disposal.
Julie Won
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Okay.
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So unless you physically witness a bid staff member for failing to containerize, that's when they That's right.
Jessica Tisch
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That's how our summonsing often works.
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Okay.
Julie Won
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Not if just a bag of random trash was found that does not contain No.
Jessica Tisch
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Because then they would be held unfairly responsible for trash that is not, for their management.
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Does DS11Y know if it will ever allow businesses which produce a high volume of waste
