Roosevelt Island aside (didn't know it had the fancy system before) New York is stuck in middle-ages with it's trash collection system. I have yet to come to a

Roosevelt Island aside (didn't know it had the fancy system before) New York is stuck in middle-ages with it's trash collection system. I have yet to come to a city where the situation is so dire. Smell, noise and rats. I can't imagine why no other system has ever been devised.