NYC Moving To Garbage Bins With Attached Lids, and You Will Soon Have To Buy Them From The City
To remove the mountains of black bags on New York City streets, reclaim public space, and improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers, DSNY has announced a plan to containerize all residential trash beginning fall 2024.
Residential Buildings with 1-9 Units
Beginning November 12, 2024, all properties with 1-9 residential units will be required to use bins, 55 gallons or less, with secure lids for trash set out.
If you already use a bin with a secure lid that is 55 gallons or less for trash set out, you may continue to use it until June 2026. After that, you will need to switch to the official NYC Bin.
Learn more about NYC Bin requirements.
Official NYC Bins
The NYC Bin is the next step in New York City’s plan to get black bags of garbage off the streets and make our city cleaner and safer for all New Yorkers.
On July 8, 2024, the City unveiled the NYC Bin, the official trash bin for properties with 1-9 residential units. Separate NYC Bins are also available for purchase for recycling and composting, though they are not required.
The NYC Bin is now available for purchase at a significantly lower price than similar bins at retail stores, at www.bins.nyc or by calling 1-855-NYC-BINS.
NYC Bins are exclusively available for NYC property owners and building managers and will only be delivered to addresses within the five boroughs.
The NYC Bin was selected following the City’s release of an RFP in October 2023 to contract a vendor to produce official NYC Bins. In the RFP, DSNY mandated that the vendor produce bins according to specifications including, but not limited to:
- Cost no more than $50 for the most common size
- Available in multiple sizes to accommodate different types of buildings.
- Rat resistant, easy to use by sanitation workers, and compatible with mechanized collection trucks.
DSNY will retrofit or replace hundreds of collection trucks, adding mechanical tippers compatible with the new bins. This upgrade will speed up collection and minimize the possibility of spills that occur with manual collection. Two sanitation workers will be needed to operate the mechanism, and this change will not affect DSNY workforce numbers.
Residential Buildings with 10+ Units
NYC is also advancing a plan to containerize trash in larger residential buildings.
Buildings with 31 or more residential units will be required to use stationary, on-street containers for their trash, serviced by DSNY’s new automated side-loading garbage trucks. On-street containers will be assigned to a specific building, solely for residents of that building.
Buildings with 10 to 30 units will be able to choose between stationary on-street containers and smaller wheelie bins.
The first district with these containers will be Manhattan Community Board 9, beginning Spring 2025, with further expansion pending environmental review.
Anonymous
In other cities the agency pays for bin not the residents
Excellent
Great news! Cities with bins are so much cleaner and have fewer issues with rodents. I don’t why why it took so long.
Italian Sanitation Engineer
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1. How does the City propose yidden dispose of extra Yom
Tov trash?
2. How long will it take for crack-heads to steal the new
bins?
3. ” 31 or more residential units will be required to use
stationary, on-street containers for their trash, serviced
by DSNY’s new automated side-loading garbage trucks…” What happens to the car parked in front of thr garbage can(s)
ch resident
its all very nice and dandy but unfortunately crown heights is a zoo and is loaded with stealers. What will happen if i buy a bin for my property and it gets stolen?
chani
this is very good. But i have the brown one which got stolen people/ homeless used them as a suitcase to put in there things and wake away with it
meyer chein
Crown Heights must get progressive. New Vaad, bike lanes garbbage cans with lids. Homeless
Michaele Ruban
I brought two people toke them. They are pick up trash early that’s good, but I’m sleeping woke up my trash gone I’m buying no more unless you give me the two Recycling I lost.