Tenants say brown-bin organics rollout is spotty in large buildings

At the Community Board 9 sanitation committee a resident who lives in a large apartment building said building management has delayed providing brown bins and multiple participants said organics collection once weekly can create smell and storage problems between pickups: "we have not been given brown bins." The presenter said organics participation and diversion metrics remain weak and collection frequency and building cooperation drive low program performance.

Members discussed practical responses — working with building management, encouraging freezers or in-unit storage for food scraps, and linking complaints to 311 — but also acknowledged that the city's organics program currently lacks sustained outreach and marketing to improve participation rates. The committee asked the presenter to circulate participation statistics for the district and to monitor collection reliability at peak summer temperatures.