New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's administration is eager to continue the containerization drive that his predecessor Eric Adams began four years ago. Starting with wheeled bins for small buildings and businesses before expanding to larger bins last year, the "trash revolution," as Adams called it, is remaking New York City's streets. Yet Adams' administration did not set aside money in previous budgets to realize the ambitious plan to roll out big on-street containers for large buildings and schools, officials say. That task falls to new leadership at the Department of Sanitation and City Hall, which in addition to negotiating the budget with the city council must deal with transatlantic supply chains and questions about the best path forward. “The lift is a bit heavier than we had anticipated,” Deputy Mayor of Operations Julia Kerson told Waste Dive. “Despite talking a lot about containerization, the resources and the planning work had not been put in place in the last administration.” The city's containerization drive began in earnest in 2022, when the agency announced it would push back the set-out time for waste unless buildings bought trash containers. The agency subsequently contracted with bin manufacturer Otto and partnered with retailers to provide city-branded rolling bins. Those will become mandatory in June for residential buildings with one to nine units. DSNY also procured "Empire Bins" from European manufacturer Contenur capable of holding up to four cubic yards of material, equivalent to about 45 plastic refuse bags, according to city documents. The department also worked with several manufacturers to acquire automated side-loading trucks capable of handling those bins. Those were rolled out in a Manhattan community district last year, placed in parking spots in front of the buildings that used the containers. The area now has 1,100 Empire Bins serving large multifamily buildings