After less than a week on East Village streets, we noticed that people have welcomed those sketchy pink boxes to the neighborhood…
DNAinfo's Lisha Arino dug into these boxes, so to speak, and spoke to some property owners who said they had NOT given permission for the sketchy pink boxes to be installed on their land.
And the response from the company?
Our Neighborhood Recycling manager Bernard Jones insisted that the company, which has a warehouse in Jersey City, got permission from all property owners to install them.
“We tell them exactly what we’re doing and it’s up to them to say yes or no,” he said.
And what about the clothes, shoes, etc., that people leave in them?
[Jones] added that the company plans to resell donated clothing to other clothing vendors, as well as to companies that use the clothing to make rags. The signage, he said, makes it clear the organization is not a charity.
“It doesn’t say ‘donations.’ It says ‘recycling,’” he said.
The Department of Sanitation could not say whether the Our Neighborhood Recycling bins are illegal, per DNAinfo.
Updated 9:50 a.m.
BoweryBoogie reports that the Department of Sanitation has swung into action against the Sketchy Pink Boxes.
Updated 1:45 p.m.
A reader says that the box along the Verizon building on East 13th Street has been removed...
Previously on EV Grieve:
About those new sketchy pink boxes around the East Village
