Why has it taken this long to deal with their own trash?
The bins don’t actually travel all the way to New Jersey, they stay on the street in front of your building, they’re just to prevent having massive piles of garbage lining every single New York street, every single week.
They stay on the street in front of your building
You mean like every other municipality in the United States?
Real answer: NYC has such insane amount of residential trash that it’s actually more efficient to have someone (usually a super) just prepare the trash in specifically designed industrial bags on the curb 2x week. Like the amount is so large no single bin like this could manage any amount of trash, so they don’t even bother loading bins they just process the bags directly into the garbage trucks. My building actually has like 15 bins like these where we can store our trash for the off days and our super sorts it all when the collection comes - they’re all usually full 2x week.
So switching to a bin only system would be require either more collection days (an insane amount of spending SDNY is tax dollars) or we’re just gonna get overflow trash on the street in shitty, easy to break homeuse bags. For reference there’s zero trash on my street unless it’s collection day and the city designated bags for those are pretty much indestructible and rarely spill trash.
Except rats have been chewing through the bags, hence the bins. Knowing NYC rats they will probably learn to chew into the bins too, though. Having put-out time and pick-up time closer together would/will make more impact on the rat problem, imho
But there’s no practical way to enforce when people put out their trash.
I may have been in NYC for too long, but I honestly don’t even see how rats are a problem anyway. They generally just scavenge garbage and do their own thing. They’re in a similar category to pigeons.
Plus, they are presumably a critical food source for alley cats. I happened to stumble upon a newborn litter of alley kittens a few weeks ago. The mother must have been away hunting.
So you’re basically murdering these little kittens if you decimate the rat population in NYC by preventing them from eating our trash. You sick fucks. /s
have someone (usually a super) just prepare the trash in specifically designed industrial bags
This sounds like a job for Garbage Bag Man! heroic theme music swells
Lots of cities have residential towers and have massive truck sized bins and/or compacting bins to deal with it. The big difference with New York is that it’s towers were built before they seriously considered how to pickup and manage garbage so there isn’t space for loading docks and alleys and the other infrastructure you need for that.
Yeah we know, NYC is the idiot big brother of American cities whose greatest accomplishment was making QB in the highschool team.
Just like LA is the spoiled little shit brother and Chicago is the hard working one that never quite gets ahead anyway.
San Francisco: “guys, I’m gay”
USA: “we know, dude”
Miami: bursts in “yo anyone got any coke?”
USA: “shut up, Miami”
Detroit: “…I can get you some coke”
Texas isn’t a city, nor do they have any world class cities, unlike other more civilized states.
Midwesterner detected. I bet you think your lakes are great too!
Disclaimer: judging by admittedly short visits to all three, I too prefer Chicago, but I couldn’t NOT do the joke 😉
I’m still so pissed that Chicago dumps their sewage into the Mississippi instead of the lake where it belongs. New Orleans has enough shit thank you very much.
Considering the lake flows into the river, it wouldnt make much of a difference
Also it’s mostly to spite St. Louis
Eric Adams, whose dislike of trash and rats is well-documented
Weird statement
It’s possible to like rats. I like rats. I had a couple as pets.
I don’t particularly care for the type you see in New York coming out of the sewer, but…
Clicking through and reading the link, he’s clearly talking about the rat problem in NYC. Not pet rats.
before trash bags were invented, only about 60 years ago, everything was just put directly into metal cans. must have been really loud.
Yall just getting trash heelys??
