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Council Member Bottcher explains current BID trash collection practices
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Council Member Bottcher describes the current system of trash collection by Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Council District 3, highlighting its effectiveness.
- Multiple BIDs in the district regularly empty overflowing corner baskets throughout the day.
- Sanitation Department picks up bagged trash twice daily in high-traffic areas.
- The current system is presented as efficient and not problematic.
Erik D. Bottcher
0:35:08
I want to follow-up on chair Feliz's questions about the Department of Sanitation's proposed rule that will prohibit bids and other entities from placing bagged trash on the sidewalk that they take out of the corner baskets.
0:35:26
And one of the big problems in my view with this rule is that it's it's trying to solve a problem that doesn't necessarily exist.
0:35:38
In Council District 3, we have quite a few business improvement districts, the Hudson Square bid, the West Village bid, the Village Alliance, the Meatpacking bid, the Flatiron bid, the Union Square Partnership, Alliance, the garment structure bid, the 30 Fourth Street, the Hudson Square bid.
0:35:58
Those entities every day, they have workers who are throughout the day bagging the corner baskets that are overflowing throughout the day, and they place the bag next to the trash bag, next to the can in their nice branded business improvement district trash bags.
0:36:27
Throughout the day, the Department of Sanitation comes by and picks up the trash.
0:36:35
It's usually like twice a day in high traffic corridors.
0:36:42
Those trash bags that are placed next to the wastebaskets, they're not there for like long periods of time and they're not on the list of things that we have problems with, they're not really a huge problem.
0:37:02
The bigger problem is the overflowing wastebaskets when they're just when they're full and people are plate making, you know, trash sculptures on the top because, you know, it's it's just overflowing.
0:37:17
So having those bids, be able to bag them and put them on the sidewalk, that's like a good thing, not a bad thing.