The city’s trash collection stinks to some Brooklyn schools.
A reduction in the garbage pickup schedule for Borough Park schools has left mountains of trash bags piled on the sidewalk, big enough to dwarf students passing by.
“It is a disgrace what has become of our district. @NYCSanitation refuses to service yeshivas in our community. Every community deserves to be clean and get basic service from the city. This cannot be allowed to continue,” Community Board 12, which includes Borough Park, tweeted in September, along with photos showing massive mounds of black garbage bags.
City Councilman Kalman Yeger, who represents the neighborhood, claimed that scaling back on the pickups was “a deliberate decision” by Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia “to harm our community.”
“I know because she told me,” Yeger tweeted.
In September, the city cut regular trash pickup from five days a week to two at the neighborhood’s 27 public and private schools including several large yeshivas. These are the days that garbage mountains form.
Instead, Sanitation now removes only what it calls “organics,” including food scraps used for composting, five days a week. It takes paper for recycling on three days. Metal, glass and plastic recycling is collected on two days.
Sanitation officials said they use this pickup program in nearly 1,000 schools across the city and that it is tailored to reflect “the amount of garbage and recyclables NYC schools generate.”
But some Borough Park yeshivas cannot keep up.
A custodian at the United Talmudical Academy told The Forward, which reported on the crisis last week, that separating food — which must be placed in special bins — from other trash was creating more work for employees.
“Now, we have to take each and every plate and divide food over here, the plate over there. Imagine you have to do it every day, and if we serve two shifts of lunch, we have to do it between every shift,” he told the newspaper.
Sanitation said it reached out to local school and community leaders last spring about the organics program and visited schools to provide training.
The agency denied that Garcia said the reduction in collection was deliberate.
Yeger did not respond to requests for comment Friday.
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