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The future of trash is here: New York shows of their new garbage truck
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too much work and chaos for dense cities. Would hold up traffic as well.
Someone should dump him in too. Also this shit is so basic. Are you telling me garbage bins are new to NYC?
Holy shit is that a bin on wheels??? NYC is so advanced it's unreal
I live in a city that struggles with trash pick up. We were always told that the narrow streets and dense housing make garbage bins a non-starter, and we were told this by people who actually do care about the most efficient/practical/workable trash system.
We have a bag system, you go to the store and buy city trash bags, these big yellow bags, and all of your normal garbage bags (from the house) go in there. They're expensive, 5 bags for $10 is the going rate, but each bag holds ~2-3+ normal kitchen trash bags plus other shit... I usually get 2+ kitchen bags + 1 diaper bag into a single city trash bag. They're shitty bags, fall apart and shit, but whatever, it's what it is. And then curb side recycle and a compost pilot program.
Every town/suburb around me has bins, the big rolling ins you toss all your shit into, and the trucks come with arms and dump then in. But I'm always told by people who *know trash* that it's not workable for a city like mine.
We have a bag system, you go to the store and buy city trash bags, these big yellow bags, and all of your normal garbage bags (from the house) go in there. They're expensive, 5 bags for $10 is the going rate, but each bag holds ~2-3+ normal kitchen trash bags plus other shit... I usually get 2+ kitchen bags + 1 diaper bag into a single city trash bag. They're shitty bags, fall apart and shit, but whatever, it's what it is. And then curb side recycle and a compost pilot program.
Every town/suburb around me has bins, the big rolling ins you toss all your shit into, and the trucks come with arms and dump then in. But I'm always told by people who *know trash* that it's not workable for a city like mine.
Im from the bronx and last time i visited, i didnt see those type of garbage containers.
People on the block still stack up garbage bags on the street for the OG trucks to come get.
People on the block still stack up garbage bags on the street for the OG trucks to come get.
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Not standard everywhere no, hence the introduction. I can instead offer you a picture of a mound of garbage bags casually on the sidewalk waiting to be picked up.
Correct! We just dump our trash and recycling bags directly on the curb. It's dumb and gross.
This is actually kind of similar to how we do it in most of Korea. I didn't know anywhere in the US had a system like that. We have to buy expensive bags labeled for the local pickup to take out the trash that are effectively a trash tax. Usually I would buy them when buying groceries and just carry groceries home in them. They're also not allowed to have food waste on them. Those go in food waste bags or special buckets.
Uh he cant be serious? This exists in literally the rest of America.
I remember taking a photo in front of one such a giant trash bag pile in 1999 and thinking this looks like the 1970s!
In the street nearby some bloke sold JLopez On the Six stolen busstop posters. That must have been relatively close to the Intrepid museum West side.
We have tiny alleys behind our houses just wider than a car (for garage access) and a big garbage truck comes through and picks up our landfill, recycling and compost bins.
I see a system that's going to hold up traffic for an upwards of 30 minutes.
That cannot function on public roads.
I guess I never really considered the logistics of trash collection when so many housing units are stacked on top of each other.
when I lived in Bmore, the parallel parked cars w/ no driveways prevented the grapple truck solution. But there's enough space for each unit to have a trash can or two on the curb.
when I lived in Bmore, the parallel parked cars w/ no driveways prevented the grapple truck solution. But there's enough space for each unit to have a trash can or two on the curb.
there should be a version of the song that plays in every city in the world with two syllables
now you're in krakow
now you're in glasgow
Lol NYC is always claiming stuff that already existed everywhere else - it's like "Chopped Cheese" all over again 😆
This is the funniest shit I have seen today; losing my mind at "there's nothing you can't do" playing background to Adams placing a bag of trash inside of a trash bin (which was rolled into its pre-marked spot next to the podium, no less). Good stuff.
Lol, it does in most of Europe where space is also limited though. It really doesn't take as long, like not even 2 minutes per container, and the bin being so big, it doesn't need to pick up so often or stop so often when it'd time to pick-up. I get that it's not fit for NYC, I was being tongue in cheek about NYC announcing garbage pick up systems that's decades old as something fancy. But it's definitely workable, and is actively being used, in large parts of the world, in big cities with limited space.
lol, he knows how ridiculous this stunt is, but has to do it anyway.
This is what happens when you introduce bin bags to an ecosystem without an apex predator.Never visited New York?
