This summer, Mayor Eric Adams introduced the “NYC Bin,” a new official trash can set to become mandatory for all residential buildings with one to nine units by June 2026. In the interim, starting November 12, residential properties can use any bin up to 55 gallons with a secure lid, with penalties for non-compliance beginning at $50 and escalating up to $200 per violation.
The NYC Bin, which became available for purchase in July, is priced at $53.01 for the largest 45-gallon model, with shipping included. The city also offers optional recycling and compost bins, although these are not required. City officials attribute the bin’s reduced price to bulk ordering, making it available exclusively to New York City residents. Each bin comes with a 10-year warranty and is specifically designed for compatibility with sanitation trucks equipped with mechanical tippers, which are expected to lessen worker injuries.
Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch noted the initiative’s broader impacts, stating that the switch to bins would “containerize 70% of the city’s trash” and deter rats from feasting on discarded food. She emphasized that nearly half of sanitation workers’ injuries stem from lifting, which the new bin design seeks to alleviate.
“This is about taking care of our working-class neighborhoods, where trash on the streets is seen daily,” said Mayor Adams during the bin’s unveiling in front of Gracie Mansion.
The contract for the NYC Bin was awarded to a North Carolina-based company aiming to distribute 3.4 million bins, with 1 million targeted for delivery by November 2024. For residents with old bins they wish to discard, the sanitation department advises labeling them as trash and placing them upside down for pickup.
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Homeless migrants may move in to them.
Double $$$ for NYC .Commission from OTTO for each can they sell . And every violation that gets written for non-compliance
They will need to subsidize these heavily to enable lower income New Yorkers to join into this program.
And I am certain that Just Stop Whales or whatever that radical organization calls themselves will be drilling rat holes in these containers to save the starving rodents.
This is crazy.
When the councils here in the UK decided to make changes to the rubbish collection system and the bins, they simply replaced the bins when collecting at the next round.
Why on earth should someone have to pay for a new bin when they have one, and worse off get a fine if they don’t buy one??
is he getting crumbs on this contract like he did on the “migrants”?
Why does this mayor think New Yorkers will cooperate? Who is ready to put leftovers and chicken skin and bones into a storage can for a once-each-week pick-up! It won’t happen! And if Sanitation Dept
police begin to issue summonses, better people will drop their waste in corner cans and others will just drop it wherever. This will not work.
pure yiddishkeit:
Ah, such pure innocence.
You wouldn’t last 5 minutes in NYC.
Yaapchik, where did you get the idea it’s going to be a 1-time-per-week pickup? You’re confusing this new scheme with Comrade Deblahhsio’s composting bins.
Having said that, I agree with pure yiddishkeit. The same thing he describes happened in Israel – in Bnei Berak! – when they decided to switch pickup methods. All buildings were given bins based on the amount of apartments there, and had the option of ordering extra ones if they wanted.
As a father of 8, I own 2 45-gallon wheeled bins, which up to now were emptied bag-by-bag by the sanitation workers who told me that these cans are actually illegal for residential homes, and that they’re forbidden by their union from actually picking them up. I get that. But now that the city has finally decided to get into the 21st century and get trucks that can handle these cans (like almost every civilized place on this planet), they tell me I have to throw away my perfectly good bins and buy the “official NYC bin”???
Someone (cough, Eric Adams, cough…) is definitely getting a kickback from this. And I smell a very large class-action suit against the city come 2026, when the forced replacement is set to happen. I guess Swagger Adams already figures he won’t be around to face that music – he’ll just be rollin’ in the cashback…