{"id":321248,"date":"2026-08-14T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321248\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T12:46:08","slug":"news-12-bronx-city-council-passes-bills-to-combat-dog-waste-complaints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321248\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | City Council Passes Bills To Combat Dog Waste Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city council passed several bills on Thursday to combat an increase of dog waste complaints throughout the city. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One of the bills introduced is a pilot program requiring the\u00a0Department of Parks and Recreation to launch a dog feces compost group. The bill says volunteer-led dog run groups would collect dog feces from dog runs under DPR\u2019s jurisdiction for composting. The amount t of waste collected would be logged and reported to the mayor\u2019s office and the Speaker of the Council. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In collaboration\u00a0another bill was introduced requiring the Department of Sanitation to regularly fill dog waste bag dispensers next to all public litter baskets in NYC. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two additional bills were also passed for signage and awareness campaigns about the important of properly disposing of dog waste. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A full overview of the bills passed can be found <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1436177&amp;GUID=CD23F0A4-7ED4-4823-9C95-ACC4F8195F7F&amp;Options=info|&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city council passed several bills on Thursday to combat an increase of dog waste complaints throughout the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-321248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}