NYC to get cleaner and greener with enhanced city funding for cleanliness initiatives

Litterbugs will have a tougher fight on their hands as the City Council and Mayor Eric Adams agreed upon a new sanitation budget that council members say will help the Big Apple get cleaner and greener.

The Department of Sanitation has been working to replace all 23,000 of the city’s old, wire mesh bins with the new “rodent-proof” bins designed to send rats packing since last fall.perforations are shaped diagonally and do not extend down to the bottom of the bin, deterring rodents from entering easily, while still allowing for liquid drainage.

“We are never going to slash and burn our way to a green city,” Abreu said. “The only way to get there is by doubling down on the solutions proven to work—adding more rodent-proof litter baskets; increasing the frequency and efficiency of trash pick-ups; and uplifting community-based climate action groups like our community composting programs, which divert organic waste from landfills and teach hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers how to build sustainable habits in their day to day lives.

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