Trash Talk: New sealed garbage containers hit uptown streets

Trash Talk: New sealed garbage containers hit uptown streets

Manhattan Board Community 9 is the first North American neighborhood with fully containerized trash, thanks to the rollout of roughly 1,100 “Empire Bins” for high-density residential buildings last week. Mayor Eric Adams did not waste his opportunity to make a Star Wars pun. “Our Empire Bins are striking back at rats and garbage in West Harlem,” said Mayor Eric Adams. “When I said four years ago that we were going to have cleaner streets and few…