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NYC BED BUG WRAP
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Tue Nov 23 2010 18:54:26
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That's right little bugites if you live in NYC starting Dec 1, 2010 you will need to wrap up/bag your mattress and or box spring for disposal by NYC Sanitation. This is another one of the recommendations made by the Bed Bug Advisory Board which is now being put into action. Also be sure to spray paint, marker etc on the item BED BUGS to reduce scavenging prior to collection.
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cilecto
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Tue Nov 23 2010 19:14:43
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Street people will rip them off and have nifty new bags to carry their stuff in (just as they regularly take trash bags and leave the contents strewn about).
Buildings will get $100 tickets.
Everyone will hate on Bloomberg.
Practical tip: Snap a pic of your wrapped mattress to present as evidence to city (or LL who docks your security deposit for $100). -
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Tue Nov 23 2010 19:24:15
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Sounds like a move in the right direction. Re "street people" -- they cut open trash bags to look for recyclable items they can then sell. This would not be the case with mattress covers.
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Tue Nov 23 2010 19:33:45
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OK so lets take it down and out spreading bed bugs as we go, and have sanitation leave it on the street first time around because they don't want to deal with it. There is no perfect answer but at the moment this seems a step as said in the right direction. And yes that the city can fine you $100 probably helped pass this on, and your thought to photo it Cilecto is a good one. As far sa the ticket it will be issued to the property owner.
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cilecto
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Tue Nov 23 2010 19:41:20
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Richard56 - 12 minutes ago »
Sounds like a move in the right direction. Re "street people" -- they cut open trash bags to look for recyclable items they can then sell. This would not be the case with mattress covers.Street people also dump and take bags to carry their stuff in. A mattress bag can make a great street shelter.
Landlords can bust the chops of tenants, especially when they're holding the funds.
I can see people storing mattresses in common areas waiting for bagging.
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Tue Nov 23 2010 20:34:44
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Hi,
This is a massive step in the right direction and like all battles it is actually won one step at a time.
It is certainly something that I have hoped for over the years and although there will always be issues and flaws it is only through a combined multi faceted approach we this issue be tackled.
Bedbugs are a lot more complex a problem than society is necessarily prepared to deal with. It has been ignored and the effect of that is now we need to deal with an issue that is not only in our homes, its in our workplaces, our hotels, our public spaces, our restaurants, our cinemas, our courthouses, our hospitals, our churches, places of worship, dentists, hairdressers, neighbours, public transport systems, vacation locations, LIVES.
This is certainly a step in the right direct that needs to be supported as such. If you feel further steps need to be taken may I respectfully suggest you lobby your politicians on a local and national level. In fact write to campaign head quarters and ask them for a policy statement on bedbugs and see what you get back.
In the UK we have the 1936 public health ACT which in summary makes it an offence to sell infected items and there seems to be no culture of commercial opportunity to recycle mattresses. I am however not convinced that legislature on the books is much value to those who remove items and unknowingly become infected, only education and overcome that issue.
Hopefully with time more of the committees recommendations can pass into practical application.
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Tue Nov 23 2010 20:57:15
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cilecto - 1 hour ago »
Richard56 - 12 minutes ago »
Sounds like a move in the right direction. Re "street people" -- they cut open trash bags to look for recyclable items they can then sell. This would not be the case with mattress covers.Street people also dump and take bags to carry their stuff in. A mattress bag can make a great street shelter.
Landlords can bust the chops of tenants, especially when they're holding the funds.
I can see people storing mattresses in common areas waiting for bagging.It happens here, and I'm the shnook who lives ten feet from the door to such area.
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Tue Nov 23 2010 21:02:04
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nycyn - 3 minutes ago »
It happens here, and I'm the shnook who lives ten feet from the door to such area.Puts you in prime spot to keep the information and warning sheets posted up on the wall then
David
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cilecto
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Tue Nov 23 2010 21:27:16
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@David. As the t-shirt says, "it ain't Kansas".
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Richard56
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Tue Nov 23 2010 23:27:55
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Ciletto: I can see people storing mattresses in common areas waiting for bagging.
David: This is certainly a step in the right direct that needs to be supported as such. If you feel further steps need to be taken may I respectfully suggest you lobby your politicians on a local and national level.
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Actually, some further steps (let's call them suggested steps) were included in the new law, just not under financial penalty at the moment. It reads in part:"We also suggest that the plastic mattress bags be placed around the bedding before it is removed from the room out to the curb to further limit bed bugs from infesting other parts of the home or apartment."
It's also possible that the new law does not include hallways/common areas because it's already against NYC fire code to store anything in a hallway.
Richard
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nycyn
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Tue Nov 23 2010 23:33:24
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BBcoukHome - 2 hours ago »
nycyn - 3 minutes ago »
It happens here, and I'm the shnook who lives ten feet from the door to such area.Puts you in prime spot to keep the information and warning sheets posted up on the wall then
DavidWhich is how I earn the title of building psycho. ANd that's to the advantage to the landlord who wants me OUT OUT OUT for my paying 1250 for a 2 bedroom. They constantly bring me to eviction court for made of stuff. (Buy me out! It's not like I want to live in your "luxury" dump!!! God forbid I fart in the elevator! Can't win for losing.
But I've been the boric acid cockroach spreader in the common areas for 15 years--and the squeaky door greaser; rescuer of old ladies; confronter of bicycle thieves. But like my shrinks'-shrink says: See where it got Ghandi and Jesus?
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