Q&A
Discussion on allowing businesses with high waste volumes to use on-street containers
0:56:47
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Council Member Julie Won inquires about the possibility of allowing businesses with high waste volumes to use on-street containers instead of smaller wheelie bins. Commissioner Jessica Tisch explains the current approach and reasons behind it.
- The current model uses wheelie bins for businesses due to the nature of the commercial carting industry
- Challenges include different businesses on the same street potentially having different commercial carters
- The introduction of commercial waste zones will maintain competitive zones, making shared large containers difficult
- Commercial carters currently lack the fleet to support hoisting larger Empire Bins
- While this approach could change in the future, the current strategy focuses on wheelie bins for businesses
Jessica Tisch
0:56:47
Does DS11Y know if it will ever allow businesses which produce a high volume of waste
Julie Won
0:56:52
to use on straight containers instead of smaller wheelie bins?
Jessica Tisch
0:56:54
Yeah.
0:56:55
I just I addressed this, a bit in Chair Abreu's Q and A.
0:57:01
Right now, the model that we are going with has wheelie bins for businesses because of the nature of the commercial karting industry, meaning you could have 2 businesses next door to each other that have different commercial carders so they couldn't share a large on street container that happens all the time and that will continue to happen even when we roll out commercial waste zones because we have competitive commercial waste zones.
0:57:27
And, also, the the commercial carters are obviously private companies.
0:57:32
And right now, they, to my knowledge, they do not have the fleet to support hoisting the Empire Bins.
0:57:40
That could change down the road, but the go
Julie Won
0:57:43
forward strategy right now is wheelie bins for businesses.
0:57:47
Got it.
0:57:47
And we I would also like to join, chair of Rayo's support for the changes in the fleet so that we can continue to modernize our system.
