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[-] gerowen@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Not a NYC dweller here, but what in the world constitutes a "modern" trash bin? Isn't a bin a bin? Do the bins drive around picking up trash autonomously? Did NYC just not have them at all or something?

[-] ccunix@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago

Where I am (a small provincial town in north west France) we at least nice small bins on the street. With MASSIVE GREAT BIG BINS underground where the actual rubbish goes.

[-] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago

Nope, no alleys in NYC, nowhere to put dumpsters that isn’t in the way. Not sure where these are gonna go.

[-] pupbiru@aussie.zone 6 points 2 hours ago

not about NY, but in melbourne we have a bunch of solar powered bins that compact the waste when it gets close to full so they can fit about 3x more in it before it needs collection

the city also has a city-wide LoRA network that they use for various sensors, so they could also easily (and cheaply) signal that they need collection

[-] megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 5 hours ago

Oh, yah, no, they’ve just been putting trash bags on sidewalks instead of dumpsters or trash bins.

[-] gerowen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

That sounds like a really good way to attract vermin of all sorts; bags will leak, break open or just otherwise be easily accessible by any critter that happens to roam by. If Ninja Turtles are anything to go by, I'm not sure I'd want those rats getting into my bags, 😛

[-] wrinkledoo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 hours ago

NYC has a reputation for Rodents of Unusual Size, so I'm honestly not surprised.

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