City considers providing garbage bins
The city is pondering providing garbage bins to residents, to avoid complaints about garbage bags being torn open and scattering their contents around. I live in a borough where garbage bins aren’t provided, yet miraculously, people put out their garbage in bags and it doesn’t make a big mess.
SMD 11:36 on 2026-01-16 Permalink
There are many rats in my neighbourhood, and not much composting, so many of the garbage bags on my street this morning were torn open. Leaves a real mess when the truck passes, as the workers toss the bags in and the contents get strewn about. Bins wouldn’t get rid of rats, but at least all the trash would end up in the truck and not on the sidewalk.
Kate 14:37 on 2026-01-16 Permalink
Odd. I think we live in the same borough, SMD, but the workers are a lot tidier on this side of the tracks.
Mozai 10:33 on 2026-01-17 Permalink
How will we teach people to use the bins? Some people on my street have grey round bins for trash, and every Friday evening I pick up the ones in front of my house an walk them back to the addresses written on them. The brown compost bins don’t have addresses on them, and there’s about thirteen of them now in front of my house, waiting for their owners to fetch them.
Ian 15:03 on 2026-01-17 Permalink
Is that because people leaave them in front of your house, or because the collectors do? On my street I often have to go looking for my bin after the compost collectors come around, though I have noticed that since all our collection is the back alley now, compost, garbage, and recycling all go straight into a garbage truck, and for whatever reason the garbage collectors are pretty good about not dumping bins halfway up the block.