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> There is a much better solution but it requires investment. This is what we have in Switzerland in the city's where there is zero room for garbage. This wou
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> There is a much better solution but it requires investment. This is what we have in Switzerland in the city's where there is zero room for garbage.
This would be a nonstarter in NYC, because large parts of the city are unmapped underground (because they were built in an era when records weren't kept methodically). Digging is expensive because you don't actually have a centralized record of where gas lines, water mains, cables, etc. all are - you have to uncover it carefully, see what's there, and then work around it.
> The cost here is around 50k to 150k depending on size and if there is a compactor also built in. No smell and no mess.
Everything costs much more in NYC, even before you factor in the aforementioned issues.
- sschueller 3y ago> This would be a nonstarter in NYC, because large parts of the city are unmapped underground (because they were built in an era when records weren't kept methodically). Digging is expensive because you don't actually have a centralized record of where gas lines, water mains, cables, etc. all are - you have to uncover it carefully, see what's there, and then work around it. So just give up? Maybe there should be an effort to correctly map all lines and improve the general infrastructure.
- chimeracoder 3y ago> So just give up? Not unless you think there's no other option between "do something that's ill-suited for the local problem" and "do nothing". > Maybe there should be an effort to correctly map all lines and improve the general infrastructure. Sit down and think about both the logistics of this and the cost, and map out what you think a reasonable timeline for that would be, and you'll hopefully understand why that's a nonstarter for a sanitation problem that requires an imminent solution.