8 JULY 21 - JULY 27, 2017 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP
Dumping, other trash issues, plague Dyker, Bay Ridge
BY DYLAN CAMPBELL
EDITORIALBROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
The July heat only enhanced the
scent of garbage as Assemblymember
and mayoral candidate
Nicole Malliotakis walked with
residents over overfl owing trash bags
and past mattresses and furniture le
alongside 62nd Street during a trash
tour through Dyker Heights on Thursday,
July 6.
“It looks like a third world country,
that’s what it looks like,” said Malliotakis,
who says she would make fi xing
such problems a priority if she were
to take o ce.
Residents pin the blame on the
district-wide implementation of the
organics program, a compost recycling
program that is one of the key
initiatives of the mayor’s zero waste
by 2030 objective. Residents say the
changes to pick up have le garbage
sitting for days and weeks and caused
a spike in illegal dumping.
“People come here and go ‘I thought
you lived in a good neighborhood. What
is this?’ We have trash all over the place,”
said Beatrice DeVito, who lives in the
area. “The quality of living in the 22
years that I’ve been here has gone down.
And the city is just making it worse.”
Community Board 10 requested that
the organics program be instituted
district-wide following a successful
pilot program in sections of Bay Ridge.
On October 2, 2016, all of CB 10 began
organics collection.
With the organics program came
changes to pick-up procedures. According
to CB 10, all single hopper trucks
were replaced with dual bin trucks. The
splitting of the truck has resulted in an
inability to pick up large items. Bulk
items larger than three by four feet
now have a special collection process.
A single hopper truck goes around the
district once a week picking up items on
a list supplied by DSNY's CB 10 garage.
Josephine Beckmann, CB 10's district
manager, said, in addition, that
twice-weekly Motorized Litter Patrol
had been discontinued. “We are supportive
of organics … but the changes
that were made to accommodate the
change in fl eet that was needed, need
to be addressed because it’s not working,”
said Beckmann. “To have this
level of street level trash on the streets,
BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/Photo by Dylan Campbell
Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis with trash accumulating
on 62nd Street in Dyker Heights.
and to lose the MLP in 30 locations, is
having a negative impact."
Complaints have been at an all-time
high at CB 10 since October, 2016, with
over 900 calls about bulk trash and
over 100 about litter made to the o ce.
According to Department of Sanitation
representative Belinda Mager, CB
10 is one of the cleanest districts in the
city, scoring a rating of 97.9 percent.
"There will always be challenging
areas that need attention and we will
continue to work hard to clean them
as quickly as possible,” said Mager. "If
residents notice illegal dumping, we
ask that they report to 311, or fi ll out
the Illegal Dumping A davit or Illegal
Dumping Tip Form.”
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