The owners of clothing collection bins will have to comply with new rules or face fines and removal of their containers if a bill the sanitation committee passed Wednesday morning is approved by the full Council.
Owners of the bins—which generally contain discarded clothing, shoes and other textiles—will have to place their names and physical addresses on each container and will be forbidden from placing the bins on city property, roadways and sidewalks or any private property without the written consent of property owners.
The sanitation department will remove any illegal bins and owners will be charged a $50 fine for the first offense and a $100 fine for each violation thereafter.
The bill has close to 30 bipartisan sponsors, including Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. It will be voted on by the full Council on Thursday.
8 comments:
WHO are the people that own these damn things anyway?
Why haven't they been removed yet? What are the arguments for their continued presence?
They're clearly not associated with legitimate charities.
I would like to see the owners' names posted - that would be a treat!
The fines should be way bigger. How about $2,000 for the first offense, $5,000 for the second offense, $15,000 for the third offense and so on.
And the feds should be all over this. Someone could easily put a big bomb inside one of these things and leave it there right out in the open for days.
Why was a bill even needed. They are placed illegally, just take them the fuck away, sell them for scrap and have a huge fine, not this bullshit few dollars.
Why is everything an ordeal in this city, even when something is illegal.
Be careful what you wish for. Bags of clothes and houshold crap-- that would once be picked up by the bin people-- may now end up at the curb and all over the street.
They are already against the law, just lazy useless city employees don't do their jobs.
"Be careful what you wish for. Bags of clothes and houshold crap-- that would once be picked up by the bin people-- may now end up at the curb and all over the street."
Doubtful. More likely they'll end up in the garbage and go into a landfill. Still no reason to allow these big ass bins on public property.
Some chains now have their own bins so they can control them. THey even call them "green"
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