The new “send rats packing!” rule for trash set-out times to cut the rat population has building managers grousing over longer hours to meet the guidelines.
With its new, later trash set-out times, the city’s sanitation department is aiming to “send rats packing!”As of April 1, buildings must put their trash bags out for collectionBut the change portends costly staffing and scheduling problems.
The sanitation department’s announcement regarding the time change for trash pick-up was a talker around town for its quirky graphic design.“Everything is going to get worse,” said Jose Rodriguez, a super who tends a handful of small buildings in different locations, from the East Village to the Upper East Side. “I can’t stick around and wait until 8 p.m. to take out the trash.”“I am part-time in every building, but when they need me, I am there,” he said.
The rules allow for set-out at an earlier hour — 6 p.m. — if the trash is enclosed in a tightly lidded bin.The new collection times will likely force Landeta to work outside of his regular hours.The city insists that setting trash out later will help curb the rat population by limiting opportunities for feeding.“We would need a dozen bins to hold our garbage, especially when there is no collection on holidays and the garbage piles up,” Landeta said.
The rules will likely drive up costs for co-ops, which is a concern for David Capaldo, president of his 140-unit Bay Ridge co-op, which employs one live-in super and one live-out porter.Rodriguez shows off a rat trap he set up in the basement of one of his East Village buildings.“I can’t stick around and wait until 8 p.m. to take out the trash,” said Rodriguez.His building might have to hire someone or change the porter’s hours.
Pest-control experts agree that limiting the rat-food supply is key — and the sanitation department insists that “this drastic reduction in the time that trash sits on our curbs” will reduce the food supply, according to a spokesman.
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