Ah, access-only trash removal! This will certainly help improve the overall trash situation.
Oh, now I get it. The bins aren’t there to be useful or sanitary. They’re to stop homeless people from going through trash.
America has weaponized basic public services
In Poland we solve this the old-fashioned way — by storing the shared bins in a precariously built shed locked with a normal key lock
Don’t worry, stores and restaurants in the US that throw away perfectly good food at the end of the night also lock their dumpsters so that homeless people can’t get in there and eat the discarded food.
In bad country you are not allowed to throw out your own garbagePlus, a bunch of electronics and moving parts that will, at some point, go wrong, right in the middle of a trade war that might make it prohibitively expensive to import electronic components, while City revenues and budget keeps getting cut (except for the NYPD).
I’m sure this won’t lead to the bins being permanently closed, later becoming white elephants and trash going back on the streets. What’s so hard about adding a lever or a handle to open the bin, like any other civilized city in the world?
But it does have the step-on lever
Yeah but what good is it if I need electronics to use it?
A hammer might solve those electronics
wifi outage will render the entire city unable to access trash cans lmaooooo
If they’re hooking it up to wifi that’s even worse. More likely it’s just simple NFC, i.e. not reliant on a network.
Are…are you serious?
NYC just invented trash cans. This is groundbreaking
it’s not real innovation unless you unlock them with a QR code from an app
That you can only access with a monthly subscription
USA USA
But is it on the blockchain? If not it’s already obsolete.
Detritus+
it’s amazing how even here, in the heart of darkness, we can just … not use the other building’s trash can? unless it’s a very small item. but then, we have quite a lot of public trash cans.
Don’t be ridiculous, they’re using key cards! (not a joke)
I want to welcome NYC to the 20th century!
greatest city in da world baybee
The one time I was in NYC the sidewalks were just filled with giant piles of trash. I couldn’t figure out why I thought maybe there was a garbage strike or something but no everyone said that’s how it always is.
Greatest city in da world baby! Big Apple #1!
Yeah I went there like 15 years ago during a heat wave and the main thing I remember is just how incredibly disgusting the whole city smelled
I did get to see the jihad pit though so i guess it was ok
If you don’t like the smell of piss, shit, and trash, then stay the fukoutta NYC BAYBEE
It is our culture and I ask you kindly not to judge us for it
there are certain streets that are more trash riddled than others and you can tell by the entire families of rats that scurry around at night
What’s going on here? You mean NYC didn’t have trash cans before this? Where did people throw all their garbage? Someone please explain
Just tossed the garbage bags onto the sidewalks. How else do you think New York rats managed to get so big?
I hope you’re joking
No wonder NYC decorates Garbage Collectors like they’re Zhukov
New York Sanitation Workers are the only vets worthy of respect.
Braver than the NYPD
fighting the REAL battles, day after day
all non-cop non-troop workers should get cool military uniforms. teachers, nurses, sanitation workers get the coolest ones.
Couldn’t find a youtube link but there’s a Dollop episode
Without these pictures I probably would have closed this window thinking it was all a joke. Do New Yorkers ever visit other places and marvel at our technology?
No, in fact, they get really mad when you tell them that a city doesn’t have to smell like hot garbage and piss
This is… Really bad.
What. I had heard NYC was stinky but I didn’t know about… This.
Joke city. Pathetic.
That explains all the rats I saw back when I was in NYC subway (I think on F) back in like 2000.
Please, Xi…
Nope. I fucking hate NYC for many reasons and this is one of them. OMG NYC MOST MAGICAL CITY IN THE WOOORLD yeah so magical it smells like shit and piss everywhere and the sidewalks are made of garbage and bin juice because they never thought “oh hm maybe waste management is a thing.” NYC is one of the biggest shithole cities in the world and I will fight anyone who disagrees
Seriously though… they did just throw that shit on the street.
It’s amazing how this city managed to survive for 400 years
This just screams good old-fashioned political machine corruption. The garbage collectors are unionized and have a good bit of political influence. It seems like NYC has been running its trash collection as a make-work program for years. The only advantage of doing trash this way is that it means you need to hire way more garbage collectors than you would with other systems. I’m all for having well paid jobs and providing people opportunities, but there are ways to do that without creating a huge public health nuisance.
I’ve consumed over three decades of USA media, including having watched shows based in NYC and this is the first I’ve learnt that they used to toss rubbush on the streets. American propaganda is powerful.
you should just watch it instead of eating it
I mean these trash cans are a pilot project, so most of the city is still just throwing their garbage straight onto the sidewalks lol
Yes
lmao. Yes, it’s one of the first things a visitor to NYC usually notices. Before garbage collection, they just pile up the bags of trash on the street
The majority of other US cities either have alleys where trash collection happens, or there’s just more space for bins/dumpsters
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The blocks of buildings in 1800’s Manhattan were designed with the idea that a shared courtyard or laneway between two buildings would serve as everyone’s outhouse and garbage burning space. As space became a premium these spaces shrunk but nobody developed a solution for the garbage the way they did outhouses so they just started piling it on the sidewalks and expecting someone else to deal with it
Amazing. An entire city dedicated to dumping shit on the ground and wondering why they have rats
hahaha …
The city’s first trash containerization pilot
Yeah that’s bins mate.
Why the fuck couldn’t regular trash cans and dumpsters work
because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
that’s nowhere near as efficient as just tossing it in the street.
NYC has been paying to have it’s garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
personally, I think NYC should have all garbage services halted for a year so they can understand exactly what it is they “create”, culturallyand materially speaking.
because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
This is when you’re so capitalism brained that you’re willing to shoot yourself in the foot. So much unnecessary complexity, so many ways for things to break, all just to keep a random pedestrian from throwing a sandwich wrapper in a random bin. So concerned about someone getting a service they ‘don’t deserve’ for free that they would rather live in filth than just eat the minor cost and live in a sanitary city.
NYC has been paying to have it’s garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
These are iDumpsters with built in AI functionality and cameras with facial recognition.
You joke but we noticed a while ago that the dumpsters at my work have cameras in them now. When I asked why the fuck they needed that, I was told it got the garbage collection company a discount on insurance.
But Empire Bins have what trash craves! It’s got javascript!
Regular bins and dumpsters are not efficient for handling the amount of garbage in such a densely populated area. With larger underground dumpsters like these, the bin men won’t have to roll a load bins and dumpsters to the dump truck and empty them, instead they can either empty the single dumpster with a giant vacuum hose or with a crane that lifts up the entire dumpster.
??? regular trash cans exist that a truck can just lift and dump. My town uses them. My trash can can probably fit like, two weeks of trash in it, too.
And, what? Same shit with dumpsters… they’re already designed to be lifted and dumped into trucks
The underground ones have greater capacity and you get most of the unsightly dumpster out of view by burying it.
You mean NYC didn’t have those yet, or west Harlem didnt have them?
Can’t believe fucking Buenos Aires is ahead of you
Yeah NYC just rolled out garbage bins like a year ago and pretended like it’s some new invention.
So until recently garbage collectors in NYC had to manually load the garbage bags into the truck? No mechanical arm lift for the bins/containers?
I mean that’s sadly still the thing in my city but c’mon it’s NYC for fuck sakes
Yeah when I was there I saw a truck with a gaggle of collectors following behind grabbing bags and throwing them in.
I was both intrigued at the sight of something I used to see in my childhood still being done now and surprised at how many hot young people were working as collectors and not scruffy old 50-something overweight white men with facial hair.
You gotta keep up with the truck for hours every night
That shit is barbaric and rolling up containers and mechanical arms is one of those ridiculously obvious and easy improvements for any municipality, like sidewalk ramps in every corner
Be an interesting small rabbit hole to see whether or not the NY sanitation workers union were for or against that kind of automation.
I’ve never been close to NYC but I believe the standard procedure was to just throw trash bags on the curb which have a high propensity for breaking open and being easy pickings for the rats.
They had trashcans, but they switched to plastic bags during a sanitation worker strike in 1969 b/c the chemicals industry donated them.
Yeah but those bags have to be manually loaded into the trucks, it’s crazy for such city to still have that horrid system
I’m an American who has been to Buenos Aires and it’s a genuine paradise compared to literally everywhere in the USA. Or maybe I was just too tourist brained, but Buenos Aires is gorgeous
I also went to Buenos Aires. I had my face rebuilt there!
They don’t call it Malos Aires.
Eh, sure it does have a lot of very nice places, beyond the hypergentrified ones I mean, but “gorgeous” eeh idk,
The pizza and icecreams are the best of the best tho.
I had a better time living in Córdoba despite being probably worse in every metric imaginable, but having the sierras just one bus-hour away is unbeatable.
In the gorgeousmeter I would place Mendoza and Salta on top. I’m not considering Bariloche, Ushuaia nor any other patagonian town cuz it’s a silly comparison, Ushuaia is ridiculous.
Mar del Plata is nice too
In any case, Buenos Aires should be judged as the big whole the metropolitan area it is, and then the astronomic scale makes it umcomparable to any other city I have lived in. It could be way better, just like any city/metropolitan area.
Trust me, you have to watch the first 20 seconds of this.
I know it’s a fake trash bag, but he immediately shakes hands with two people using his trash hands
Eric Adam’s hands are always dirty.
Thank you
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CyberTrucks?naw, those look better than cybertrucks
UPDATE ON THE WAR ON RATS
They’re plastic dumpsters…
Wonder whose kid got the contract.
Vincent Price’s son, Fisher.
cybertrucks looked too much like dumpsters so we changed the dumpsters
New York City is the greatest city in the world. It’s the only place that has empire bins and bodegas!
Empire bins and
Too busy cornering the market in bodega technology to have a proper trash can
We must start a limited scale pilot program using a public-private partnership to determine ze effectiveness of ze trash canWe’re gonna need a bigger empire bin.
