NEW YORK (VINnews) — New York City Councilman Kalman Yeger, who represents the Borough Park neighborhood, claims that the recent decrease in garbage collection near Brooklyn schools is a deliberate attempt to punish the local Jewish schools.
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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. On days without pickup, mountains of trash pile up on sidewalks near local schools, some of them big enough to dwarf students passing by.
Yeger contended that the city is allegedly deliberately scaling back on garbage collection because the Yeshivas and schools are not participating in composting, according to a report by The Forward.
Yeger added that Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia had admitted that the policy was deliberate.
“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.
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 responded by stating that similar pickup programs exist in nearly 1,000 schools across the city and that it is tailored to reflect “the amount of garbage and recyclables NYC schools generate.”
However some Borough Park yeshivas cannot keep up. One custodian said separating food — which must be placed in special bins — from other trash creates more work.
“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 Forward.
Sanitation said it reached out to school and community leaders in the spring about the program and visited schools to provide training. The agency also denied that Garcia said the reduction in collection was deliberate.
The kids should be taught to do the separating , not workers . It’s good for the environment
Keep on voting democrats, it is the yeshivos pushing the most for voting democrats for all the money they get, now you can’t complain when you need to comply with those Democratic laws.
I guarantee that the NYC Dept. of Sanitation would not have retaliated against a goyish parochial school, in this manner.
Simple with hold local tax.
The amount of trash our community makes is astounding. We use so many plastics and single use products. Wrap up whole plastic table clothes and just think that it goes away with the garbage truck. I never see this amount of trash outside our neighborhoods here and in Israel. I’m embarrassed for us. And yes, children can pick up after themselves and scrape their food in the bin.
It’s too hard to be good citizens and scrape food in the bin ourselves. This must be antisemitism.
What is with this Kal-man?
Against safe streets, bicycling, now against recycling too?
Just because you wear black, does that mean you can’t be green as well?
Hey, wear black if you wish, but think green! 🙂
Think and be green, it pays!
The whole recycle propaganda is baloney. My local sanitation men have told me so and n fact at my house they pickup everything mixed together. It’s all lefty climate control nonsense. Vote all the liberal democrats out of office otherwise you will have no meat to eat,no plastic bags for your groceries,no straws to drink with,no furs to wear, no police to keep you safe and yeshivas will have to close down like is happening in Europe. Trump 2020.
Just like anti vaxxers know better than most of the mainstream medical establishment, the frum community, led by Rush Limbaugh et al, knows better than most scientists that global warming isn’t happening or can’t be helped by human actions. Amazing…
Heshy you will also have contaminated air and water , no forests , extinct animals , nuclear waste and other goodies
I still remember when they charged for water and sewer a minimal amount, there where no water meters. Buckle up they are going to start charging for trash pick up.
It also takes 2 minutes to flatten cardboard cartons and tie them together so they don’t fly in the street and it’s easier for Sanitation to handle many at one time. Archy-5 comments on one article. I wonder what your record is.
Simple question:
We seem to have become increasingly obsessed with recycling. The concern cited is pollution. I hear that. But I wonder whether it is efficient. Some years ago, I heard quotes from field experts in sanitation that the recycling of paper is quite efficient, and saves lots of money. In contrast, the recycling of metal, glass, and plastic is quite costly in the short and long run. I tend to believe, not having seen anything reported, that the recycling of food scraps as compost should be cost saving.
Anyone with more recent data that is reliable?
No taxation without representation! The city should not be getting our taxes if they refuse to provide services. Liberals need to stop with the fear mongering that Hashem will not take care of our world and leave us alone with the silly climate change nonsense. Liberals, stop trying to control everything and just do your job which is picking up the trash from the streets of Brooklyn. Hashem will take care of us!
China was buying a lot of our recyclables until recently, especially paper and cardboard. That has now changed and at the present time there is little market for recyclables.
Composting food scraps from schools reduces use of landfill and unlike home brown bin pickup is probably cost effective.
As for the huge amount of trash generated in Boro Park it’s not just the large families, it’s that the younger generation uses far more disposables than their parents and wastes a lot of money doing so.
In my local community, the recycling personnel come every two weeks;we don’t have to separate plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, or any other recycling material. Rather, it is all thrown into the same recycling container. Also, we are not directly charged extra for that service, or for our weekly trash collection, as some communities do.
I wanted to mention something else, which is indirectly related to this topic. For years, New York City, and its decision makers, resisted and prohibited builders, as well as existing homeowners, from installing disposers in their kitchens, to grind down food waste. The Sewer Dept. was afraid that the sewers would be blocked with that waste. In fact, they were wrong. Other communities have used such devices for many decades. It was not that long ago, that NYC finally gave the green light to homeowners (as well as apartment landlords), to use disposers.
The minhag in the alter heim was to give leftovers to the beheimos. This is Minhag Yisroel, and the Reformers brought in this Chodosh Ossur Min Hatoiroh of disposables and throwing everything in the trash. Any real yeshiva should be using dishes and metal silverware, and feeding leftover food to Beheimos in nearby farms. It is time for some genuine orthodox Jews to get a proclamation from Hisachdus against this Reform trashing of everything in plastic bags.
Global warming is occurring, but it has nothing to do with cows gassing, and fossil fuels. It’s a cycle, and then we’ll have a “cooling” for 30 or 40 years. And to believe that the world will end in 11 years like AOC, and that autistic Scandinavian girl; well, that’s pretty dumb, scientific “experts” opinion notwithstanding. These progressive brats, with their cell phones and all modern conveniences, have zero regard for the 3rd world that is finally pulling themselves out of poverty because of access to cheap carbon based fuels. And as long as China and India, and the rest of the Asian & African world doesnt even do the minimum to stop polluting, a of the efforts of the United States will be for nought. The best thing a progressive could do to save the world is to kill themselves & stop using-up our resources.
“Global warming is occurring” Thanks for letting us know this, Its a chidush from a Trumpists. “Then we will have a cooling for 30 or 40 years” Not even a IY”H ??? From where are you getting this info. Is this the shiteh of your new Idol. Plain apikursis?
Any Jew who does not vote Trump is not a Jew. After all he did for us we owe him gratitude. He is fighting our battle. He hates the liberal reformed clergy just as we do. He is putting conservative judges in the Supreme Court like we Jews want him to do. It’s the Jinos Jewish in name only that hate him and us as well. Soon this internal enemy will fade away into the dust pans of history. Boro parkhas been cleaned out. The reform temple is closed and knocked down for Frum housing. Hopefully all the deformed temples will close their doors. Trump 2020
Nothing to do with anti semitism.
Sanitation “workers” (euphemism) are the laziest, dirtiest, sloppiest, rudest, most vulgar, and destructive animals, just slightly edging out NYPD.
Idiocy and arrogance are required to take the civil service test.
I heard his wife named Jenny Berger is a senior official in the mayor’s office? so therefore this seems just a way to make a fuss since if he really wanted it resolved he can call her.