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Posted on 01/22/2026 3:38:20 PM PST by lowbridge
New Yorkers are scrambling to buy required but tough-to-find official trash cans or face a fine — but the only company allowed to make the bins has already left town.
A former worker at Otto Environmental Systems told The Post the company shut down its New York operation after City Hall axed its request to hike prices for the branded “NYC Bins.”
Meanwhile, thousands of residents have complained that they paid for the $50 bins but still haven’t received them.
“The volumes that were spoken about within the contract the city wrote did not come to fruition,” the ex-employee, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Post. “We were losing money every week.”
Owners of residential properties with between one and nine units homes are required to start using the bins by June 2026 or be slapped with penalties. The rollout of the bins are part of a sweeping containerization push that covers some 765,000 small residential buildings.
Otto didn’t get a direct payment as part of an exclusive deal, but the money it was getting direct from buyers was apparently not enough — as it asked the Department of Sanitation to hike prices of the bins by $25-$30.
The city said no, prompting the company to roll out of the Big Apple, the former employee said.
“I got a call the Thursday before Thanksgiving to close the building, lay off the drivers, lay off the warehouse guys, and have that building empty before Thanksgiving,” the ex-employee said.
Besides shutting local storage and deliveries, Otto shipped the remaining inventory back to a warehouse in Charlotte, North Carolina, according to the former worker.
An Otto spokesperson confirmed it closed warehouses and imposed layoffs after its request was denied.
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If the city wants you to have bins the city should pay for them
Agreed.
Otto also suggested that the city bill residents for the cans through property taxes like other cities do in the US rather than asking residents to order the cans directly, the spokesperson said. That would have cut down on delivery costs because the company could have delivered more cans to the same area each trip, according to the spokesperson.
Atlas shrugged...
And where does the city money come from and how much is wasted before the first trash can is paid for?
They already screwed up procurement without even handling any money.
Atlas shrugged and then he left for Gault’s valley.
These bins do not last forever.
So there must be continuous supply of new bins forever.
NYC's gonna look like that anyway, just a little sooner.
”The government cannot give something to someone that it doesn’t first take from someone else”
“””Just throw your trash out the window into the street.
NYC’s gonna look like that anyway, just a little sooner. “”
I’ll wait for the great garbage avalanche. Idiocracy comes to life.
branded “NYC Bins.”
They must be branded? a little yellow spray can tagging should suffice.
Not sure what the problem is, just go down the street and grab one. probably readily available on the black market.
It’s NYC. There isn’t anything bad that can happen to them that they don’t deserve.
zero sympathy: they got the government they voted for ...
NYC trash Catch 22!!!!
Ha haaaaaas! Enjoy the warm embrace/suck of Collectivism New Ugandans!
How do you think the city pays for them?
Citizens are screwed either way.
HAHAHA. One more thing the government control and can screw up. The government couldn’t even run a whore house in Nevada.
No - see, we wrote our utopian law so this has to work because our vision is just and good! It’s law so you have to make it happen! That how it works in wypipo’s world, right?!
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