Residential Waste Containerization

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

Residential Buildings with 1-9 Units

Fall 2024

Residential buildings with 1-9 units will be required to set out all trash in containers with secure lids at the curb for collection.

Summer 2026

Property owners of buildings with 1-9 units must purchase an official NYC Bin to set out trash at the curb. Official NYC Bins will not be available until fall 2024.

Official NYC Bins

The City released a Request for Proposals on October 11, 2023, to contract a vendor to produce official NYC Bins. DSNY has mandated that the vendor produce bins according to specifications including, but not limited to:

• Cost no more than $50 for the most common size (the competitive vendor selection process may bring the price down even further).
  
• Available in multiple sizes to accommodate different types of buildings.
  
• Rat resistant, easy to use by sanitation workers, and compatible with mechanized collection trucks.

DSNY will retrofit or replace hundreds of collection trucks, adding mechanical tippers compatible with the new bins. This upgrade will speed up collection and minimize the possibility of spills that occur with manual collection. Two sanitation workers will be needed to operate the mechanism and this change will not affect our workforce numbers.

Residential Buildings with 10+ Units

NYC is also advancing a plan to containerize trash in larger residential buildings.

Buildings with 31 or more residential units will be required to use stationary, on-street containers for their trash, serviced by our new automated side-loading garbage trucks. On-street containers will be assigned to a specific building, solely for residents of that building.

Buildings with 10 to 30 units will be able to choose between stationary on-street containers and smaller wheelie bins.

The first district with these containers will be Manhattan Community Board 9, beginning Spring 2025, with further expansion pending environmental review.