Q&A
Discussion on mandating containerization for BID refuse and comparison with business compliance
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Commissioner Jessica Tisch discusses the plan to mandate containerization for BID refuse, comparing it to existing business compliance requirements.
- BIDs will need to comply with the same rules as individual businesses and residents
- The change aims to improve the appearance of commercial corridors
- BIDs have until August to comply with the new requirements
- Multiple containerization strategies are available, including wheelie bins and large on-street containers
- Some large BIDs have already implemented containerization successfully
Julie Won
0:46:25
Will containerization of bid bag refuse be mandated in a rule and or through legislation?
0:46:32
I guess you may not share that publicly right now.
0:46:34
Or could you share that?
Jessica Tisch
0:46:38
The my my feeling is that bids need to comply with the very with the very same rules that all of their individual members, all of businesses on commercial corridors comply with and have complied with, very well for the past 9 months.
0:47:01
I mean, if you walk down a commercial corridor today at trash time, you don't see as many big piles of bags on the street.
0:47:09
You see wheelie bins, And it makes the commercial corridors look and feel so much better.
0:47:18
If you walk down a commercial corridor now, a lot of the times, the only trash bags that you will see on the streets are the bid bags.
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And so all we're saying is that the bids will need to comply with the very same rules that their member businesses and 1 to 9 use unit residences and churches and everyone else complies with in the city of New York.
0:47:44
This is not intended in any way to be punitive or to be different than what all of their businesses do.
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100% understand
Julie Won
0:47:53
street trash, which is from the pedestrians and from the public, which isn't tied to an individual business Right.
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Or those members.
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So
Jessica Tisch
0:48:11
I walk down commercial corridors, and I see all of the business trash, which is the majority of trash, out in containers.
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And then literally next to every litter basket, I see mountains of garbage bags, and it's disgusting.
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We don't have to live that way, and we shouldn't live that way.
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And we have given the bids ample notice.
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We've been working with them for over a year.
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They have until August to comply.
0:48:44
We're not mandating a containerization strategy.
0:48:47
They can use wheelie bins like every business in the city.
0:48:51
If they have more trash than can, than a than would a wheelie bin would be appropriate for.
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They can use large on street containers.
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We have a number of really big bids in this city that have already done this.
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The Downtown Alliance, Times Square.
0:49:09
This is not rocket science, but it's a change.
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And it's it's an important change and we wanna give them time to figure out which strategy is gonna work best for them,
Julie Won
0:49:19
but we do expect compliance come August.
