NYC’s “Trash Revolution”

Mayor Mamdani has named a new sanitation commissioner to lead the city’s ongoing containerization push.

Thousands of New Yorkers are still waiting for their mandated city bins and risk fines as early as June while the sanitation department works to clear a supply chain backlog.

Sanitation inspectors quietly began issuing tickets on Jan. 1, resuming enforcement that Mayor Adams paused last year only weeks after it took effect.

A new analysis finds the city’s containerization plan leaves recycling to pile up on sidewalks even as regular trash moves into bins.

The city’s plan to move large on-street bins into parking spaces citywide could take until 2032 — largely due to resistance over removing street parking, a new report found.

Building superintendents say the new bin mandates have created impossible workloads and gathered outside City Hall to demand the city ease up.

Starting Tuesday, residential buildings with nine or fewer units must set out trash in sealed bins — the first mass enforcement of the container mandate.

One block between First and Second avenues shows how extreme density can make the city’s container-based trash plan physically impossible to execute.

The city is requiring most homeowners and small landlords to buy bins with secure lids — a central plank of the effort to clean sidewalks and cut the rat population.