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Advocates: The City’s ‘Clean Curbs’ Pilot is Too Small
The limited scale of Clean Curbs — basically, the piloting of off-the-shelf storage sheds for bags — hampers the city's goals because it does not require the total rethinking of garbage-collection methods, which is what the city ultimately needs.
May 10, 2022
OPINION: It’s Time To Mandate Composting Citywide
Small waste programs in underserved Brooklyn neighborhoods show it can be done, argues the Council's Sanitation Committee chairwoman.
May 5, 2022
Monday’s Headlines: Garbage Humor Edition
Our friends at Transportation Alternatives are equally obsessed with what we've been calling "New York's 5 o'clock shadow": the mounds of big black plastic garbage bags that cover the sidewalk. Plus other news.
May 2, 2022
TRASH TALK: Advocates Warn Against Further Delays on Commercial Waste Zones
They don't trust them as far as they can throw them.
May 2, 2022
City Will Extend Tiny Clean Curbs Program to All Boroughs
A pilot program to get trash bags off sidewalks will move beyond Manhattan — first, to Brooklyn. But can it do enough fast enough to curtail 'NY's 5 o'clock shadow'?
April 21, 2022
Times Square Business Group Pilots Street Trash Enclosures
The "Clean Curbs" program arrives as the Times Square Alliance looks to rid sidewalks of leaky, smelly garbage bags at the Crossroads of the the World.
April 19, 2022
Got Commercial Trash? The Sanitation Department Has $20K for Your Project
The city will spend an almost infinitesimal amount of money on a problem with monumental repercussions.
April 11, 2022
A Round and a Roundy: Why is Any of This Normal?
Why do we normalize some completely atrocious things about New York life?
January 13, 2022
