"The rollout continues a pilot program that has over the last two years brought trash containers to streets in parts of Harlem. Residents in the area no longer pile their garbage up on sidewalks, but building supers instead toss their bags in the bins in a change city officials said has reduced rat populations by eliminating a key food source for pests."
"The 'Empire Bins,' which are made in Spain, sit at the curb and are emptied by new $500,000-a-piece garbage trucks purchased by the sanitation department that are equipped with lifts. They can only be opened with special keys held by building supers or sanitation department crews. They're central to the mayor's vision for a 'trash revolution' that gets all of the city's trash in containers and off sidewalks."
Hundreds of large on-street garbage bins will be installed in Brooklyn's densely populated neighborhoods over the next year. The rollout expands a two-year pilot that placed roughly 1,100 bins in Upper Manhattan, where residents stopped piling garbage on sidewalks and building supers deposit bags into bins, a change officials say reduced rat populations. About 1,500 bins will be added in Brooklyn Community Board 2, with schools in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill receiving bins this fall and wider installation next year. The Spain-made 'Empire Bins' sit at the curb, are opened only with special keys, and are emptied by new lift-equipped $500,000 trucks. Use will be mandatory for residential buildings with more than 30 units; landlords of 10–30 unit buildings may request a container or use city-sanctioned wheeled bins.
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