In April, Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city’s long-stalled Clean Curb program has launched a pilot where garbage bags can be placed in container bins ahead of being picked up by sanitation crews — an alternative to piling the trash on the city’s sidewalks. The pilot is the beginning of what Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch hopes will eventually be a city like Barcelona or Paris, full of bins where residents and visitors can dispose of their garbage and recycling bags instead of dumping them on the street in huge heaps.

But as the summer heat conducts its annual trash bake, filling New York nostrils with pungent aromas, some might be wondering when these new-age bins will land on their corner — and if a $1.3 million program is enough to tackle the garbage piles. Sanitation spokesperson Vincent Gragnani told Gothamist last week that they expect several more containers to be installed in the different neighborhoods this summer and fall, but couldn’t provide new information on the locations.

For the program to succeed, city officials will be looking at metrics like participation rates, cleanliness scores, maintenance feasibility and monitoring the “rat count,” Gragnani said.

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