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Thankfully they throw them into the truck. But the same heavy thing problem applies with bags too. A bag of wet restaurant trash can weigh upward of 50 lbs or 2
by MisterTea 7y ago
Thankfully they throw them into the truck. But the same heavy thing problem applies with bags too. A bag of wet restaurant trash can weigh upward of 50 lbs or 22.6 kg. And of course do you think all business owners buy strong quality trash bags? Half of them are ripped before they even make it to the curb and the rest are torn up by rats. Trash workers can't help these things. I worked with a small trash compactor company and owners skimping on bag quality was an issue.
- ch4s3 7y agoI'm strictly referring to residential trash, often in half filled bags. My experience observing this is limited to a few neighborhoods, but I regularly see it in Crown Heights and Prospect Heights. The workers there often carelessly toss around bags and leave large piles of loose trash on the sidewalks that then sits there for weeks at a time. Surely the city/building owners/business have a role to play, but let's not pretend that the trash workers are all doing a great job. Ideally the city would require stand bins that could be lifted by an arm on the truck (like many other cities in the US).