The park's "small, nimble" rats use the park's trash containers as lunch boxes, said Dena Libner, a spokeswoman for the conservancy.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

The park has previously removed trash cans from children's parks and wooded areas to fight off rats, which had infiltrated the cans there.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

Conservancy officials said they want to reduce the amount of trash hauled from the park to landfills.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

For the first time, Central Park will have more recycling bins than trash cans, officials said.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

Additionally, the conservancy plans to replace the park's more than 300 plastic trash cans with slatted aluminum containers.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

That doesn't mean they're easy to spot, though: Chinese conceptualist Song Dong's contribution to Documenta is "The Doing Nothing Garden, " a 160-foot-long grassy knoll in Karlsaue Park whose innards are a mound of trash.

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About 2, 000 tons of trash are currently taken to the landfill from the park each year, according to the conservancy, while about 60 tons are recycled.

WSJ: Trash Talk in New York City's Central Park

Tuesday, the Lower Manhattan park was clear, with about 40 city crews in orange vests scraping up trash and pressure washing sidewalks.

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Salazar and National Park Service director Jon Jarvis said visitors would encounter locked restrooms, fewer rangers and trash cans emptied less frequently.

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Park said he saw Simpson briefly set the golf bag on top of a Los Angeles airport trash can.

CNN: MARCH 27