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> How often is garbage day? For general household trash, if you are eligible for DSNY collection, it's two times per week except for some holidays. Recycling a
by tetromino_ 2y ago
> How often is garbage day?
For general household trash, if you are eligible for DSNY collection, it's two times per week except for some holidays. Recycling and compost are once a week. If you contract to a private garbage collection company, it's whatever you specify in the contract.
> Also a bit wild to me that there's not like a communal dumpster.
Large apartment buildings of course do have trash chutes leading to a dumpster of some sort. But inside or outside smaller buildings, there is no space.
> Some population dense cities also do underground dumpsters, has that been floated?
There is an underground garbage handling system on Roosevelt Island. The idea of underground dumpsters in other parts of the city been floated, but it's impossible because there is too much density of existing underground infrastructure and much of this infrastructure is not mapped, making it impossible to plan an excavation project of such a scale. See e.g. https://dsny.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/reports/future-of-trash-april-2023.pdf https://dsny.cityofnewyork.us/wp-content/uploads/reports/fut... (pdf). (There are also interesting engineering questions of how underground dumpsters would work after heavy snowfall.)
- cogman10 2y agoInteresting. Reading the report it looks like the biggest issue any sort of communal trash system faces is we simply don't have that in the US. NY would need a lot of trash trucks which are only being manufactured outside the US. They'd be one of the only cities doing this as well. It looks like underground would be an option, but the big deal breaker is potentially needing more frequent pickup and specialized trucks.
- eru 2y ago> NY would need a lot of trash trucks which are only being manufactured outside the US. Put them on a boat? Or are the legal hurdles to importing so high?
- rincebrain 2y agoIt becomes an ongoing maintenance problem even if you import them - if nobody in the US has experience servicing them, and nobody else is buying them, then you end up being the sole subsidizer of the cost of things like having a stockpile of parts around.
- 1-more 2y ago> Large apartment buildings of course do have trash chutes leading to a dumpster of some sort The bags therein get put out on the street in a big pile, however. Or they did before the new bin situation.
- bluGill 2y agoCities like rome that have real archeolorical things going back centuries and they can dig easier than nyc. Quit using that cop out if they can do it you can too.