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Trash Bins Coming to School Bathroom Stalls as City Provides Free Tampons

By Katie Honan | May 23, 2016 4:30pm
 Students in front of the new feminine hygiene dispenser at a Corona high school piloting the program. By 2019, bathroom stalls will include trash bins to make it easier to throw these products out.
Students in front of the new feminine hygiene dispenser at a Corona high school piloting the program. By 2019, bathroom stalls will include trash bins to make it easier to throw these products out.
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CORONA — Bathrooms in schools across the city will get new trash bins in each stall following suggestions from students who are participating in the new pilot program which offers free pads and tampons, according to the Department of Education.

The bins will be part of a new $100 million investment to upgrade bathrooms in middle and high schools by 2019, the DOE said.

Part of those renovations include the addition of trash bins for sanitary products, a DOE official said at a budget hearing last week. 

Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras-Copeland — while praising the newly-expanded pilot program to provide free pads and tampons in schools across the city — said students she met with complained about the lack of trash cans. 

"The girls said we love that you’re going to provide feminine hygiene product but there are no trash cans," she said during the hearing. 

Many students said they preferred in-stall bins to throw out used products. 

The DOE's Deputy Chancellor, Elizabeth Rose, said new, private bins will be included in bathroom upgrades.

At the beginning of the school year, The High School for Arts and Business began offering free tampons and pads in its girls bathrooms, and the program expanded to 25 schools in Queens and the Bronx.