![]() Many people have already brought up the fact that trash already lives outside infront of houses so it truly makes no difference the hour at which is goes out if it’s in a bin as it’s been outside the entire day. This law proposes that we place trash on the curb during peak rat activity. I do not agree that this proposal is trying to dominantly control the rat population mainly due to the fact that rats are nocturnal animals. I am both a homeowner and property manager. If it’s illegal to place or leave this type of trash on City buildings, it should be the same set of rules for New Yorker’s private property! Comment added Octo7:06am How about focusing on this proposal…amend the rules concerning flyers, paper advertisements, notes, business cards from realtors, restaurants, construction companies and other businesses that are constantly being left on the outside doors of private homes! Make it illegal to put this type of trash on the doors of private homes. Importantly, It gets darker earlier at this time of the year and not all residents are comfortable with taking out their garbage after dark. Garbage and recycle that drops out of trashcans when being emptied into the Sanitation trucks are left in the street by sanitation workers. Where are the Sanitation supervisors that monitor the efficiency and work ethic of its workers? Trashcans that are paid for by residents are thrown and tossed carelessly and/or left in the street by sanitation workers. The Sanitation workers are not made to adhere to a strict time to collect the garbage so why should New Yorker’s be fined for when garbage and recycle is placed at the curb. Regular garbage MIGHT be picked up by 9am but the recycle sits at the curb until 12:30 pm and sometimes later. Why do the New York “powers that be” continuously change the rules for the residents of New York but not change the rules for their Agencies?!! The Dept of Sanitation is NOT consistent when it comes to garbage pick-up. One decision after another this City’s management makes increases the difficulty of actually living in this City and ever pushes me to leave it. Do you really need a study to realize this? And finally, how about focusing on businesses dealing with food and the large mountains of refuse regularly in front of apartment buildings, rather than pulling individual households into this issue? If rats are being attracted to garbage in any numbers it’s from the piles upon piles upon piles of garbage lining our streets – NOT our residential trash pails. How, pray tell, is keeping our pails 6 feet from the eventual curbside location another two hours going to solve this rat problem?ĥ. ![]() How about the crews not leave trash strewn throughout the street after emptying the pails?Ĥ. How about getting the santitation teams to actually show up on a reliable schedule? Ours frequently show up many hours, even into the late afternoon, for morning pickups.ģ. How can we expect that they will spend the additional 1/2 of a second required to keep a lid associated to it’s pail? They will be lost within a month.Ģ. We cannot trust our sanitation workers to responsibly treat our trash pails (they are strewn over the street itself after every weekly pickup, sometimes a house down the block, and THEN they are only half-emptied – if we are lucky). Yet this initiative, like most the City implements, puts yet another onus on residential community members, rather than where actual improvements in the situation could be made.ġ. Like most residential homeowners, I am concerned with the cleanliness of our streets. As a Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn resident, I strongly oppose this rule change.
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