NYC Parks Launches Pizza-Box Trash Cans to Help Manage Trash & Discourage Rats

Pizza boxes, difficult to fit in typical trash cans, can now be disposed in specially designed trash cans in five parks citywide. NYC Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue announced the installation of the new trash receptacles, custom-designed for the disposal of pizza boxes, on Aug. 30. Through the new initiative, visitors at parks throughout the city can dispose of their empty pizza boxes in these dedicated containers, rather than forcing the rectangular boxes into circular bins.

Mess of the Month

A recent visit to the Bronx River Forest between Webster Avenue and Bronx Park East found several piles of garbage containing beer bottles, food containers, discarded e-bikes and scooters, and even a part of a porcelain urinal.