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I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates
by otoburb 2y ago
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings.
Even in the suburbs, residents of single-family houses typically need to bring their garbage/recycling bins to the end of their driveways. I think the only time that this isn't the case is when there's a special contract for certain isolated apartment buildings or complexes where the rubbish is stored in larger garbage dumps for the sanitation crews to pick up.
- BadHumans 2y agoThere is a difference between a garbage bin and a pile of garbage. NYC has piles of garbage bags just on the street.
- otoburb 2y agoNYC has both, because I generally consider compost a type of garbage and that is definitely stored in bins and hauled to the sidewalk, at least for the buildings that have opted into the composting program.
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- aetherson 2y agoNew York City only recently got the memo about putting garbage into bins. (Really!)
- bagels 2y agoNot being sarcastic. Every other place I've been uses containers (wheeled bins, cans, dumpsters) to prevent rats and to make collection cheaper. What is the purpose of piles?
- djtriptych 2y ago> What is the purpose of piles We like to keep out-of-towners rattled.
- lokar 2y agoWhere would you keep the bins? Where would people park when the bins are out? How many bins would a say 15 floor apartment building have?
- outworlder 2y ago> I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings. Uh. Where I live – on the other coast – we just place our trash in plastic containers. We place them on the street the same way. Garbage truck picks them up and the driver doesn't even have to get out of the vehicle. No rats, more efficient, no people cutting their hands because they are picking up plastic bags and there's glass shards in them. Nobody has to even touch the containers.
- wolverine876 2y ago> the driver doesn't even have to get out of the vehicle Does everyone orient their bins correctly and precisely enough for the truck's pickup device? Is the pickup device so flexible that it doesn't matter?