NYC Ballot Measure Would Expand Trash Pickup and Street Vendor Crackdowns

The plan to containerize trash across the city is already charging forward.

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): Mayor Eric Adams will ask New Yorkers this November to grant him sweeping new authority to expand his trash revolution. A question on the back of voters’ ballots asks whether to expand the sanitation department’s enforcement of cleanliness rules in public spaces and its ability to clear out unlicensed street vendors. The proposal would codify the sanitation department’s responsibility to clean areas that fall out of the agency’s jurisdiction, like city highways, neglected medians and small plots of green space. It would also strengthen the department’s responsibility to containerize waste across the five boroughs, a signature Adams policy that he’s dubbed a “trash revolution.” The proposal also includes language that would underline the department’s ability to enforce street vending rules in city parks.

“Voting ’Yes’ will expand and clarify the Department of Sanitation’s power to clean streets and other City property and require disposal of waste in containers. Voting ‘No’ leaves law unchanged,” reads the text of the ballot proposal. Sanitation officials say the measure is necessary to clean up sidewalks and lots across the city, but opponents call it a power grab that gives the department too much authority that will lead to continued aggressive crackdowns on street vendors.

The plan to containerize trash across the city is already charging forward. The proposal clarifies that the sanitation department has the authority to regulate how garbage is set out for collection, according to the Charter Revision Commission.

Courtesy: www.wasteadvantage.com

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