NYC installs 'pizza box-only' bins at some parks to reduce trash overflow and rats

The parks department says it’s rolling out the specially designed bins ahead of Labor Day weekend.

Eating a slice or two in the park is a quintessential New York City experience. But when pizza boxes are forcibly jammed into park trash bins — or left on top of them — crust and cheese remnants can end up feeding the city’s persistent rat population and making public space grimier.

The six new pizza box-shaped bins feature a red-and-white pattern on the outside — a nod to tablecloths at old-school pizza joints — and language stating "empty pizza boxes only." Parks officials are placing them next to traditional trash and recycling bins and say discarded pizza boxes will be collected like other garbage.in Greenwich Village, across from a Joe’s Pizza location, earlier this month.

But they aren’t the first pizza box-shaped bins the city’s parkgoers might have seen. The Central Park Conservancy installed a similar bin for recycling pizza boxes as part of a pilot program in the Manhattan green space

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