Putting the garbage out used to be simple.

Not anymore. At least not in New York City.

Now the city wants us to buy new, official garbage cans at a cost of $50 a pop, according to the New York Post.

Mayor Eric Adams wants all trash put out in bins in order to beat back the rat invasion we’ve seen in the five boroughs. He also thinks that having trash in cans, instead of in towering heaps on streets, will make the city a more beautiful, healthier place to live.

By next fall, homeowners and residents across the five boroughs will have to put their garbage out in cans. By 2026, the Post reports, we’ll all have to transition to the official, $50 city garbage cans.

Adams is right. Putting your garbage out in cans in better all around.

But why should I have to pay for new garbage cans? I already use cans for my garbage. It’s going to eventually cost me $100 to replace my two garbage cans. That’s real money.

To be clear, I’ve never put a kitchen garbage bag out for collection without putting it in a can. That’s just an invitation to vermin. I almost without fail put all my recycling out in cans as well, not clear plastic bags.

I occasionally put black contractor bags of household debris out without cans for collection. But those bags don’t contain the food scraps and other kitchen waste that attract rats. Even so, I’ve lately taken to putting those bags in a garbage can too.

And I do put the leaf bags out by themselves.

I’m all for attacking our rat problem. And, yes, having garbage bags stacked everywhere is unsightly and not healthy.

But I already have garbage cans. Good, sturdy ones that are in fine condition. Why should I have to buy new ones? I’m already in compliance with the city’s edict on putting trash out in containers. Happily so.

I like my garbage cans. They’re the right size for the amount of trash the household generates each week. There’s nothing wrong with them.

Let the city go after people who don’t already have garbage cans, especially single-family homeowners. Make them buy the cans. Hit them with a fine if they don’t use them. There’s a new revenue stream for you, Mayor Adams. You’re welcome.

Just leave me and my existing garbage cans alone.

This isn’t a knock against my good friends at the Sanitation Department. I have no problem with garbage pickup in my neighborhood. The trash collectors are just doing their jobs, no matter how they get the garbage from my curb to its final destination.

But we now have new rules about what time we can put trash at the curb. We have to wrap our mattresses up in plastic coverings (which we have to buy) when we put them out for collection, literally throwing money away. We have to separate our recycling even though not all of it is recycled.

Enough is enough. Just let me throw out my garbage.

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