"Dozens of the city's new space-age garbage containers crash-landed in Brooklyn over the last week, marking the latest move by the sanitation department to eradicate mountains of trash bags from sidewalks. The large, gray bins made by the Spanish company Contenur are a common sight in parts of Upper Manhattan, where the sanitation department has rolled them out over the last year as part of a pilot program."
"In the coming months, officials plan to place them in parking spaces outside of large residential buildings in the area. "Usually it's a mess of trash and it's just really nasty and smelly over here," said Jenny DeMelo, 40, a chef who lives in the neighborhood. "I like it. It's much better." DeMelo said she wants the bins on her block, even if it means losing parking."
"It's the first time the new bins have been deployed outside of Manhattan. The rollout comes after the sanitation department under Mayor Eric Adams has also required all businesses and small residential buildings to put out their trash in containers, which officials have credited with a reduction in rat sightings across the five boroughs. Sanitation department officials said they're working to bring the bins to other schools in Brooklyn's Community Board 2 this fall"
Seventy-six large gray Contenur trash containers were installed outside 19 schools in Brooklyn's Community Board 2, after a pilot rollout in parts of Upper Manhattan. Officials plan to place additional bins in parking spaces outside large residential buildings in coming months. The sanitation department has required businesses and small residential buildings to use containers, a policy officials credit with reducing rat sightings across the five boroughs. Residential buildings with more than 30 units will be assigned bins; buildings with 10 to 30 units can choose an Empire Bin or city-sanctioned wheeled trash bins. Some residents welcome the cleanliness; others worry about lost parking spaces.
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