Bay Ridge Trash Talk: Cleaner Streets With Fewer Baskets

The Eagle is reporting that members of Community Board 10 say the experimental program involving the removal of 14 trash baskets on three Bay Ridge street corners is having its intended effect: The streets are cleaner because residents aren’t dumping their household waste where the bins used to be located. A spokesman for the Department of Sanitation says two trash baskets near the train station on 69th Street were restored to deal with commuter waste but that otherwise the department will keep the experiment running on an open-ended basis. According to the Eagle, the president of the Dyker Heights Civic Association would like to see the program reproduced on five street corners on 13th Avenue.
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