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Implementation of residential and commercial containerization rules
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Commissioner Lojan details the implementation of new containerization rules for both residential and commercial properties in New York City.
- Set-out times changed from 4 PM to 8 PM, with earlier set-out allowed if trash is in containers
- Container rules for all businesses went into effect, requiring secure bins for trash
- Residential buildings with 1-9 units required to use bins starting November 12
- Over 650,000 official New York City bins have been purchased by residents
- Starting June 2026, only the official bin will be permitted for trash collection
Javier Lojan
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In October of twenty twenty two, the Adams administration kicked off this effort by changing set out times for both residential and commercial waves from 4PM, one of the earliest set out times in the country to 8PM effective April 2023, while also allowing earlier set out if material is in a container.
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This incentive of containerization was paired with major changes to the s and y operations, picking up more of the trash far earlier including ending a practice by which up to one fifth of the trash had already been left out for a full day.
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Just over one year ago, container rules went into effect for all businesses of every type in New York City, requiring them to get their trash off the streets into a secure bin.
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We wrote 140,000 warnings to businesses as this rule went into effect and have written tens of thousands of summons since, gaining broad compliance and bringing bins to restaurants, delis, bodegas, drugstores, boutiques, and everything else on our commercial corridors.
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As mentioned, the first containerization requirement for our residential buildings in more than fifty years went into effect November 12, requiring all bill buildings with one to nine residential units to use bins.
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This can either be their own or the official New York City bin, the cheapest high quality bin available on the market.
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New Yorkers have purchased over 650,000 of these bins at www.bins.nyc or at nychomedepot locations.
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And as you can see in the pictures behind me, they have fundamentally altered the look and feel of our streets, replacing piles of black trash bags that attracted rats, imputed pedestrians, and generally made New Yorkers feel that no one cared about their neighborhoods.
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Starting June 2026, this will be the only bin permitted for trash to facilitate safer, cleaner, mechanized collection.
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As you all know, I was a sanitation worker, and I'm still one at heart.
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And it pains me that fully half of our line of duty injuries are sprains and strains from throwing bags.
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The two sanitation workers operating truck with mechanical tippers will have one less thing to worry about.
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DSNY worked hard and demonstrated the incomparable creativity of the public sector in developing a contractual model that made this bin the cheapest on the market by far, about a third of the cost of similar bins.