Cleaning

Volunteer to monitor and maintain a litter basket. Request new liners for your adopted basket.

Learn about Alternate Side Parking, suspensions, and change requests.

Get tips for residents and businesses about keeping the community clean.

Learn about the CleaNYC Sidewalk Power Washing program for major commercial areas.

Request the removal of an illegally placed collection bin.

Get supplies and tools for neighborhood cleanup projects.

Order more than 99 copies of a Department of Sanitation literature item.

Request for a Department of Sanitation speaker or participation in an event.

Report an accident or property damage involving a garbage truck, snow plow, or other City sanitation vehicle.

Report a problem with a Department of Sanitation employee's behavior or operation of a Sanitation vehicle.

Report a sidewalk or gutter, including 18 inches into the street, that is not clean.

Report grease, gasoline, cement, oil, sewage, chemicals, or other liquids being dumped into a sewer or catch basin.

Report a problem with a dumpster.

Report a stray bag of garbage or loose debris in the driving or biking lane of a City street.

Report waste leaking or spilling from a garbage truck or garbage that spilled onto the ground while being loaded into a truck.

Report illegal dumping.

Report a public trash can that is overflowing with garbage or being used for household or business garbage.

Request a new or replacement public litter basket.

Report litter, debris, or garbage alongside or on the roadway of a highway.

Report a location that is the target of chronic littering.

Report garbage placed for pickup that has not been properly secured.

Report an overflowing public recycling bin.

The City no longer accepts requests for No Dumping, Clean Up After Dog, and No Littering signs.

Learn how to donate a public litter basket to the City.