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DSNY outlines plans for composting education and outreach
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Acting Commissioner Javier Lojan details DSNY's plans for composting education and outreach over the next six months. He emphasizes leveraging existing resources and personnel to continue education efforts.
- DSNY will use existing supervisors who have relationships with residents and businesses in their assigned areas
- The department will focus on written warnings and direct interactions with residents
- Supervisors will explain the program details, including bin options and proper disposal methods
- The commissioner acknowledges some confusion among residents about bin requirements and aims to address these issues through outreach
Javier Lojan
0:22:02
So as I mentioned the existing supervision we have in place right now is going to be what I leverage for this.
0:22:10
And these supervisors, just so you know, you might be familiar with them chair, are assigned to these sectors regularly.
0:22:17
They have relationships with a lot of the different residents and businesses in the area And that's where that's where their focus is gonna be.
0:22:25
Obviously, they're still gonna be able to, you know, issue violations for other sanitation related violations, but I think that their presence they have to drive down these blocks regularly to make sure that there's, you know, ASP regulations are being met, that the refuse and other recyclables are being collected.
0:22:42
So they're driving down here and observing, making observations.
0:22:46
So these are the people that are gonna we're leveraging to make sure that this education and outreach piece is is gonna be completed.
0:22:53
And again, it's through the written warnings.
0:22:56
We have a sticky note that has information if we can't make attempts to contact the homeowner or you know, the billing owner.
0:23:05
But I think that's where I'm gonna focus on is leveraging them to make interactions and explain to them, you know, what the program is about.
0:23:13
Because it's it's a simple I think one of the things that I have seen or heard about is that some people think that they can only use a certain kind of bin.
0:23:21
Right?
0:23:21
I mean, ideally, the brown bin is the ideal bin to use because it has a locking lid and we gave out almost 200,000 of these bins when we rolled out each borough.
0:23:31
But you can use any bin under 55 gallons as long as it's it's sealed, tightly sealed, and if you have just leaving yard waste, you can put that out in a plastic bag or a paper bag.
0:23:42
So there's a lot of, you know, there is, you know, some some people that have expressed confusion, I think those are the things that I wanna address with this outreach piece.