NYC finally joins the 21st century.
As of Friday, all 200,000 businesses in the Big Apple are required to put out their bags of trash in garbage bins, as communities across the county and world have long done.
The requirement is the next phase in the city’s efforts to curb what Mayor Eric Adams’ administration has called a “24-hour rat buffet” of trash on sidewalks.
The city in August started requiring restaurants, convenience stores and bars to use a sturdy trash can with a secure lid and extended the requirement to chain stores the following month.
NYC finally joins the 21st century.
21st century? My city made them mandatory in the 70s to combat raccoons and opossums. And it was the early 90s that we had to use their robotruck compatible bins.
Wait till you hear about recycling in part of the USA…
Yeah, all new streets should have mandatory underground bins. Plastic bins just don’t make sense in a city as big as new York.
Totally agree! I’ve often wondered why New York doesn’t do this. Even retro-fitting exists streets wouldn’t be that hard. Remove one parking spot and you could put garbage, recycling, and even organic waste there! And while there’s capital costs in setting this up, I expect savings would more than make-up for this by having to pickup less often and only ~1 stop a block instead of each individual unit.
Here’s a NotJustBikes video about how waste is handled in Amsterdam if anyone’s unfamiliar with these underground bins.
Because just underneath New York City streets immediately begins a myriad of tunnels and pipes and wires, and all kinds of other crazy shit. It may just not be practical on existing roads and streets.
Sure, but they should have that mapped out and could do it on some existing roads where those obstacles don’t exist. I don’t think it has to be an “all or nothing” solution. Even on newer streets where you can’t bury disposal storage, there’s potential to put that infrastructure on the surface (with attention to vehicle sightlines, etc) until the road is rebuilt in 50+ years.
LOL my god no they don’t have it mapped. The city mostly doesn’t have a clue. NYC went through explosive growth in the 20th century though an explosion of different technologies. It’s wild down there.
Yeah, by new street, I mean whenever they tear the street up for repaving/accessing utilities. All streets are rebuilt every few decades.
Queens resident, unfortunately most of our streets don’t even have trash cans
Those cans better be made of adamantium if they want to keep NYC’s brand of rodent out. Those things are gnarly
Well, maybe they’ll nest in them and get thrown out on a regular basis.
Yeah, move the rats to Jersey!
Eric Adams already started that trend
i worked for city parks, they’re an unorganized mess. managers get paid top dollar to bark orders while the minimum wage employees who actually do the cleaning are overworked. there are many neighborhoods where you can walk miles without seeing a trash can. on top of that, the geniuses who planned city design planted all male trees that shed foliage through the year
And pollen.
But the alternative is female trees that drop fruit that rot on the sidewalk, become slip hazards, and feed rats.
What absolute nonsense.
The pigeons and seagulls won’t like it either.
