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In the US, yes, but in New York we generally just pile up our trash bags on the sidewalk on garbage day. We don't have alleyways between our buildings and most
by wan23 2y ago
In the US, yes, but in New York we generally just pile up our trash bags on the sidewalk on garbage day. We don't have alleyways between our buildings and most of the street space is taken up by free car storage.
- jstummbillig 2y agoWhere do you store full trash bags in between pickups?
- MisterTea 2y agoIn trash rooms, hallways or alleyways if one exists (common outside of Manhattan).
- soared 2y agoStill on the sidewalk. NYC is perpetually full of trash bags in comparison to other major cities (or non major cities)
- snakeyjake 2y agoOn the street. Go to Google Maps, zoom in on New York City, then drop a Streetview pin randomly anywhere in the city. Chances are very, VERY, good that just by panning, not moving, you'll find a trash bag dumped on the sidewalk.
- throwaway7679 2y agoThere are garbage bins in NYC. Here's one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7238555,-73.9968645,3a,75y,51.83h,63.95t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1so0r-o9p7HKwGVXpVA7TTkg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D26.049999999999997%26panoid%3Do0r-o9p7HKwGVXpVA7TTkg%26yaw%3D51.83!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7238555,-73.9968645,3a,75y,5...
- Retric 2y agoYep a trash bin right next to: "trash bag dumped on the sidewalk"
- snakeyjake 2y agoIt's funnier if you don't explain the joke.
- Retric 2y agoThat’s assuming it was funny in the first place.
- namaria 2y agoNY serves a rat banquet on the regular and pikachu-faces at the amount of rats that attend.
- cogman10 2y agoHow often is garbage day? Also a bit wild to me that there's not like a communal dumpster. Some population dense cities also do underground dumpsters, has that been floated?
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- the_third_wave 2y agoI suspect the NYC underground is already so crowded with pipes and cables and under-sidewalk storage areas and other things there won't be much space for such dumpsters there.
- tokioyoyo 2y agoI feel like people would sue the city if they had to walk more than a minute to dump out their trash in NYC. I was there for a few months when the trash bins were being tested out, and seeing people complain about it was… interesting?
- dfxm12 2y agoWere the bins in the street and not on the sidewalk for this test? These complaint were likely really about taking away a parking spot. People would rather walk through a maze of garbage bags than make things slightly less convenient while driving. We are way too car-brained.
- tokioyoyo 2y agoYup, those were the exact complaints actually! A bit wild to my stupid brain, but it is what it is.
- saalweachter 2y agoThe volume gets pretty intimidating; for Manhattan, you're talking around 140 cubic yards of garbage per block per week [0.1 yard / person, 1400 people / block], which would be ~4 of the 40-yard dumpsters (the 8 x 8 x 22' ones you'll see outside construction sites, roll-on/off trucks) per block. That they're able to collect that much garbage anyway means it's not an unsolvable problem, but going from using that much space once a week, in the form of piles of garbage on garbage day [with the remainder of the time it being scattered in smaller piles in buildings' garbage rooms], to 24/7, means you're losing like 12 parking spots per block, or like half a building lot per block, if you're storing them off the street.
- anotherhue 2y ago> most of the street space is taken up by free car storage. 'Subsidised' I think is the more correct term here.
- cowsandmilk 2y agomost of it doesn't cost any money. I believe "free" is an accurate description.
- anotherhue 2y agoThe land is some of the most valuable and costliest to maintain in the world. The absence of a parking meter just means someone else is footing the bill.
- eru 2y agoYes, and I think that was implied already?
- fknorangesite 2y agoThis is such useless pedantry. We all know what was meant.
- hombre_fatal 2y agoThey're addressing a common misnomer. And one of the costs of street parking is that the parking spot is free. It ties right in to the discussion on the cost of street parking here: can't put trashcans on the street, garbage truck can't access trash cans from the street.
- starspangled 2y agoFree as in healthcare.
- mattclarkdotnet 2y agoThe thing being subsidised is free on street parking. Free on street parking is not subsidising the already existing street space.
- datavirtue 2y agoDepositing trash bags on the street is legal?
- rightbyte 2y agoFor real? I thought that was a movie thing. Then again I though steam release manholes was a movie thing too...