Santosuosso questions Anderson on corner dumping and shared container solutions
Santosuosso asks about gaps and approaches to corner dumping on litter baskets. Anderson identifies challenges in mixed commercial-residential streets without space for official bins, proposes shared Empire bins with access cards, and notes DSNY already has enforcement tools but needs resources.
And then my only other question was about going back to the dumping piece that Councilmember Thomas Henry was speaking about.
Our district deals with a lot of just corner dumping on baskets, which blows my mind because, as you said, Commissioner, it's like we will pick up the trash.
The service is available to you.
Have you identified gaps and or, you know, approaches to some of the corner dumping that we could help move legislation along or try to address in any way?
Yeah, I think, yes, there are certainly gaps.
I think in your district in particular and many other districts in sort of southern Brooklyn, I think one of the biggest challenges that we see is in places where
you have first floor commercial and one or two stories of residential above.
There may not be a good place.
for the official New York City bin, which is now required as of this week.
And so, you know, people just have been used to taking their trash to the corner litter basket, which is not allowed.
I think when we roll out the Empire bins, I think one of the places that we really want to look at the opportunity for shared containers is on streets exactly like that,
where potentially we could put one Empire bin for the entire street, give access cards to every resident on that street, and have them use that instead of other kinds of containers for their waste set out.
And that would really streamline things and give them a designated place that they can put their trash without having to manage a bin without any space to do so.
So that's certainly something that we're thinking about as far as enforcement tools.
We at this point have a lot of tools at our disposal.
If we see any identifying information either in a litter basket or adjacent to a litter basket, we can write a ticket based on that.
We do so pretty frequently.
So I don't think it's a matter of having more tools.
I think it's just the resources to be out there and do the enforcement.
Got it.
Thank you.