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Wilson asks about prioritizing replacements in areas without partners

New York City Council · Oct 15, 2026 · starts 0:47:20 · 1 min 48 sec

Wilson asks whether DSNY prioritizes basket replacements in areas without community partners. Anderson says BIDs often replace their own baskets, while DSNY conducts quarterly inventories and is replacing every approved missing basket; he offers to discuss additional locations.

Carl Wilson

And in terms of when you're replacing, you mentioned a lot of the community partners that you have and work with, but I don't know that this is sort of anecdotal, but

Carl Wilson

I feel like where I don't have a community partner is where I'm missing a lot of my bins.

Carl Wilson

So do you prioritize your replacements maybe in those areas that don't have a partner?

Carl Wilson

But like, for instance, in Chelsea, south of Penn Station, tremendous foot traffic.

Carl Wilson

But that's where I'm missing like a ton of.

Carl Wilson

That's where I get complaints a lot about baskets being missed.

Carl Wilson

And there's no community partner there to report on that and to clean them so that they could really use them.

Carl Wilson

So how does that factor into when you're looking at where to replace, target your replacement?

Gregory Anderson

Yeah, so where there are bids that own and install their own litter baskets, those are obviously getting replaced by the bids.

Gregory Anderson

So there's a...

Gregory Anderson

Much more just sort of attention to those baskets.

Gregory Anderson

And they may even have dozens of extra baskets in inventory ready to go out if something gets damaged or stolen.

Gregory Anderson

Where there are baskets that are only serviced by us and only managed by us, again, it goes

Gregory Anderson

through this process of every quarter we do a full inventory of all of our litter baskets and we are in the process now of replacing every single approved litter basket location that does not currently have a basket.

Gregory Anderson

There may be places in the area that you're talking about that are not currently approved for a litter basket and so they're

Gregory Anderson

It's not technically missing because it wasn't supposed to be there.

Gregory Anderson

If there are places where you think there should be additional litter baskets, we're certainly happy to have that conversation.

Carl Wilson

Great.

Carl Wilson

I did send you all a letter about those, so I'd love to know which of those are approved.

Gregory Anderson

I have a draft response to that letter sitting in my inbox right now.

Carl Wilson

Okay, thank you.

Carl Wilson

That's all for me.