About
New York put roughly 750,000 buildings on identical official bins, then stamped a blank white panel on each one for your address. NumberCan is the practical handbook for that panel: why to mark your bin, every honest way to do it, and what to do when a bin goes missing.
NumberCan is a project of Primo Cans, a Brooklyn company that makes peel-and-stick address labels sized for the official NYC Bin. We sell one of the solutions this site describes, and we say so wherever it matters - including the strip at the top of every page. When a cheaper or more permanent way exists, we say so briefly - but this site's job is to show you the best way, once, clearly.
Every rule, fine and requirement mentioned on this site is checked against primary sources - DSNY and NYC311 - and carries a "last checked" date. When a rule changes, the page changes. If we get something wrong, tell us and we'll fix it: info@numbercan.com.
Not a government site, not affiliated with DSNY or the City of New York. For the rules themselves - deadlines, fines, enforcement, how to get an official bin - our sibling site cans.nyc tracks them in plain English, independently of any product.