Sanitation dropped off these Food Scrap & Yard Waste bins around my area last summer and other residential areas had received them earlier.

The new NYC laws required residents to dispose of food scraps and yard waste in these separate containers and no longer allowing them for "regular garbage". Things like uneaten food, dirty paper plates and napkins, bones, tea bags, leaves, twigs... were to be put in these. The reason for this was so they can use the waste to make mulch for public parks and community gardens.

Some residents complained about this saying that they will attract critters when they leave them out waiting for pick-up, but nothing serious happened.



I was just wondering if your area had these same requirements?

We've had those too. If they're securely fastened, I don't see a danger of strays getting into them.

No, but there are a lot of neighbors in my part of the neighborhood who have their trash picked up by either Casella, Waste Management, or a local company.

No. Toledo has weekly garbage pickup and biweekly recyclables pickup, but no kitchen scraps recycling.

We don't have compost bins in Cleveland. I usually recycle the bottles, cans, glass, and cardboard.

Ironically...at my church, I'm the one who's recycle concious!

An update to this is that NYC stopped making it mandatory to dispose of kitchen and yard waste separately when the pandemic hit.

There's designated drop-off sites around where people can drop it off themselves if they wish. We recently had a letter sent where residents can put down their names if they wished to have it picked up regularly. It said they would bring it back based on how many names they received.

This separation of recycle vs scraps (garbage) has been going on in Santa Monica for years and perhaps in most of Los Angeles.


Santa Monica enacted the strictest no smoking laws years ago also. Even smoking on the beaches, as all those butts go into the ocean. And butts were allegedly found in fish.

Here out in the middle of the soybean fields of Indiana we have no "food scraps" restrictions, but they do provide separate bins for general garbage, and 2 smaller ones for plastics and cardboard.

But they did just recently add a restriction (due to pandemic related staffing issues) that each household will be limited to one "bulk item" not in an approved container...per week. This pertains to old chairs, non hazardous building materials, stuff like that.

I put a new high security front door on my house recently, and sat the old door out at the curb with my regular garbage, and they did not accept it. So, I took a saw and cut the door into two pieces, and they took that the following week.

Sanitation dropped off these Food Scrap & Yard Waste bins around my area last summer and other residential areas had received them earlier.

The new NYC laws required residents to dispose of food scraps and yard waste in these separate containers and no longer allowing them for "regular garbage". Things like uneaten food, dirty paper plates and napkins, bones, tea bags, leaves, twigs... were to be put in these. The reason for this was so they can use the waste to make mulch for public parks and community gardens.

Some residents complained about this saying that they will attract critters when they leave them out waiting for pick-up, but nothing serious happened.



I was just wondering if your area had these same requirements?

We live in the country and we don't have anything like that. You don't even have to recycle if you don't want to. Everything goes in the dumpster or you can haul big items to the landfill.

No. Toledo has weekly garbage pickup and biweekly recyclables pickup, but no kitchen scraps recycling.

Same here in my area of Michigan.

I got a notice in the mail that my area is mandating the separation of food scraps / yard waste again by October.

I have City separation of yard waste from regular trash, but no mention of food scraps - they still go into regular trash, unless I want to compost them myself.

The yard waste is supposed to consist of twigs, clippings, grass cuttings, small tree branches, etc. only.

Bi-weekly recyclables pickups.

If you have raccoons and other critters in your area, there's a high likelihood they'll chew into the lids of the plastic bins to get at food waste. In my case the kitchen scraps are supposed to be bagged along with other trash and will not attract them.

Thankfully no intrusive laws where I am, all of the trash at my apartments can go into the same giant dumpster.

To remove the mountains of black bags on New York City streets, reclaim public space, and improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers, DSNY has announced a plan to containerize all residential trash beginning fall 2024.

The new rules also apply to houses of worship receiving DSNY curbside collection.




Beginning November 12, 2024, all properties with 1-9 residential units will be required to use bins, 55 gallons or less, with secure lids for trash set out.

If you already use a bin with a secure lid that is 55 gallons or less for trash set out, you may continue to use it until June 2026. After that, you will need to switch to the official NYC Bin.

Separate NYC Bins are available for purchase for recycling and composting though they are not required.




November 12, 2024: All properties with 1-9 residential units must use bins, 55 gallons or less, with secure lids for trash set out.

June 2026: All properties with 1-9 residential units will be required to use the official NYC Bin for trash set out.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/collection/containerization/residential-containerization.page

No. Toledo has weekly garbage pickup and biweekly recyclables pickup, but no kitchen scraps recycling.

It's the same in Maumee, Ohio, where I now live, but our recyclables are collected weekly instead of biweekly. I'll take pictures of my house's carts tomorrow and post them here.

How do they know if stuff is seperated???

I dont think they check the cans do they???????

It's the same in Maumee, Ohio, where I now live, but our recyclables are collected weekly instead of biweekly. I'll take pictures of my house's carts tomorrow and post them here.

No. Toledo has weekly garbage pickup and biweekly recyclables pickup, but no kitchen scraps recycling.

I took these pics of my old house in Toledo's trash and recyclable carts in 2010.

Those are nice looking Bins..... Thank you Ohio :)

I recently put out my garbage early in the morning just as the NYC Sanitation guys were coming to pick up.

I asked them what they think of these new garbage bins and they said, "We can't stand them. Nobody likes these things. Pain in our asses!"

I dont blame em!

I recently put out my garbage early in the morning just as the NYC Sanitation guys were coming to pick up.

I asked them what they think of these new garbage bins and they said, "We can't stand them. Nobody likes these things. Pain in our asses!"


That's NYC. The all-mighty local politicians love to make laws for the rest of us, but they of course don't follow them. They also make money off them by giving out contracts to enforce them, which they get campaign contributions and kickbacks for. We have a big staff here and they take care of it, so Babalu doesn't have to get his hands dirty.

That's NYC. The all-mighty local politicians love to make laws for the rest of us, but they of course don't follow them. They also make money off them by giving out contracts to enforce them, which they get campaign contributions and kickbacks for. We have a big staff here and they take care of it, so Babalu doesn't have to get his hands dirty.

What stunk was that we had to pay for these new bins.

Years ago they dropped off those Food Scrap & Yard Waste bins for free.

To remove the mountains of black bags on New York City streets, reclaim public space, and improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers, DSNY has announced a plan to containerize all residential trash beginning fall 2024.

The new rules also apply to houses of worship receiving DSNY curbside collection.




Beginning November 12, 2024, all properties with 1-9 residential units will be required to use bins, 55 gallons or less, with secure lids for trash set out.

If you already use a bin with a secure lid that is 55 gallons or less for trash set out, you may continue to use it until June 2026. After that, you will need to switch to the official NYC Bin.

Separate NYC Bins are available for purchase for recycling and composting though they are not required.




November 12, 2024: All properties with 1-9 residential units must use bins, 55 gallons or less, with secure lids for trash set out.

June 2026: All properties with 1-9 residential units will be required to use the official NYC Bin for trash set out.

https://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/attachment.php?attachmentid=310172&stc=1&d=1724881155

I kind of need a new regular one and a new blue one, but I’m not sure if I should break down and go with these ones.

Weekly trash pickup, bi-weekly recyclables, and weekly separate yard waste pickup that begins in April for me. I'm in the city, and all that needs to be separated; my brother is in the county and his company takes his trash and yard waste all together.

3 containers provided for me, all with attached lids that tend to blow open in the wind. My trash bin is very similar to the one shown in opus' photo.

A few months ago, the collector accidentally dumped mine into his enormous truck. He came to my door to apologize that he couldn't retrieve it, so he arranged for a "new" one to be delivered to me.

Another almost identical one did arrive in good time, but it was a used one: a fairly dirty mess, with badly rusted wheel parts. :(

From @NYCSanitation

NYC: You MUST separate your compostable material from your trash. Fines begin April 1.

Compostable material includes food scraps, food-soiled paper items & yard waste.

https://x.com/NYCSanitation/status/1898069125374631947

Starting June 1, 2026, properties with 1-9 residential units will be REQUIRED to use only official NYC Bins for trash set out. A warning period will be in effect from June 1 through September 7.

Full enforcement of the NYC Bin requirements for trash will begin Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

https://www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/collection/containerization/nyc-bins.page

I went for a BIKE RIDE this morning and alot of ppl have thier bins out as Fri morning is pick up.....