Ah, access-only trash removal! This will certainly help improve the overall trash situation. 
In bad country you are not allowed to throw out your own garbage
Oh, now I get it. The bins aren't there to be useful or sanitary. They're to stop homeless people from going through trash.
America has weaponized basic public services
Plus, a bunch of electronics and moving parts that will, at some point, go wrong, right in the middle of a trade war that might make it prohibitively expensive to import electronic components, while City revenues and budget keeps getting cut (except for the NYPD).
I'm sure this won't lead to the bins being permanently closed, later becoming white elephants and trash going back on the streets. What's so hard about adding a lever or a handle to open the bin, like any other civilized city in the world?
NYC just invented trash cans. This is groundbreaking
it's not real innovation unless you unlock them with a QR code from an app
That you can only access with a monthly subscription
USA USA
The one time I was in NYC the sidewalks were just filled with giant piles of trash. I couldn't figure out why I thought maybe there was a garbage strike or something but no everyone said that's how it always is.
Greatest city in da world baby! Big Apple #1!
It is our culture and I ask you kindly not to judge us for it
What's going on here? You mean NYC didn't have trash cans before this? Where did people throw all their garbage? Someone please explain
Just tossed the garbage bags onto the sidewalks. How else do you think New York rats managed to get so big?
I hope you're joking
No wonder NYC decorates Garbage Collectors like they're Zhukov
New York Sanitation Workers are the only vets worthy of respect.
Braver than the NYPD
fighting the REAL battles, day after day 
Without these pictures I probably would have closed this window thinking it was all a joke. Do New Yorkers ever visit other places and marvel at our technology?
No, in fact, they get really mad when you tell them that a city doesn't have to smell like hot garbage and piss
This is........ Really bad.
Nope. I fucking hate NYC for many reasons and this is one of them. OMG NYC MOST MAGICAL CITY IN THE WOOORLD yeah so magical it smells like shit and piss everywhere and the sidewalks are made of garbage and bin juice because they never thought "oh hm maybe waste management is a thing." NYC is one of the biggest shithole cities in the world and I will fight anyone who disagrees
Seriously though.. they did just throw that shit on the street.
It's amazing how this city managed to survive for 400 years
This just screams good old-fashioned political machine corruption. The garbage collectors are unionized and have a good bit of political influence. It seems like NYC has been running its trash collection as a make-work program for years. The only advantage of doing trash this way is that it means you need to hire way more garbage collectors than you would with other systems. I'm all for having well paid jobs and providing people opportunities, but there are ways to do that without creating a huge public health nuisance.
lmao. Yes, it's one of the first things a visitor to NYC usually notices. Before garbage collection, they just pile up the bags of trash on the street
The majority of other US cities either have alleys where trash collection happens, or there's just more space for bins/dumpsters
The blocks of buildings in 1800's Manhattan were designed with the idea that a shared courtyard or laneway between two buildings would serve as everyone's outhouse and garbage burning space. As space became a premium these spaces shrunk but nobody developed a solution for the garbage the way they did outhouses so they just started piling it on the sidewalks and expecting someone else to deal with it
Amazing. An entire city dedicated to dumping shit on the ground and wondering why they have rats
Why the fuck couldn't regular trash cans and dumpsters work
because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
that's nowhere near as efficient as just tossing it in the street.
NYC has been paying to have it's garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
personally, I think NYC should have all garbage services halted for a year so they can understand exactly what it is they "create", culturallyand materially speaking.
because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
This is when you're so capitalism brained that you're willing to shoot yourself in the foot. So much unnecessary complexity, so many ways for things to break, all just to keep a random pedestrian from throwing a sandwich wrapper in a random bin. So concerned about someone getting a service they 'don't deserve' for free that they would rather live in filth than just eat the minor cost and live in a sanitary city.
NYC has been paying to have it's garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
These are iDumpsters with built in AI functionality and cameras with facial recognition.
The city's first trash containerization pilot
Yeah that's bins mate.
You mean NYC didn't have those yet, or west Harlem didnt have them?
Can't believe fucking Buenos Aires is ahead of you
Yeah NYC just rolled out garbage bins like a year ago and pretended like it's some new invention.
So until recently garbage collectors in NYC had to manually load the garbage bags into the truck? No mechanical arm lift for the bins/containers?
I mean that's sadly still the thing in my city but c'mon it's NYC for fuck sakes
Yeah when I was there I saw a truck with a gaggle of collectors following behind grabbing bags and throwing them in.
I was both intrigued at the sight of something I used to see in my childhood still being done now and surprised at how many hot young people were working as collectors and not scruffy old 50-something overweight white men with facial hair.
I've never been close to NYC but I believe the standard procedure was to just throw trash bags on the curb which have a high propensity for breaking open and being easy pickings for the rats.
They had trashcans, but they switched to plastic bags during a sanitation worker strike in 1969 b/c the chemicals industry donated them.
CyberTrucks?
naw, those look better than cybertrucks
They're plastic dumpsters...
Wonder whose kid got the contract.
UPDATE ON THE WAR ON RATS
cybertrucks looked too much like dumpsters so we changed the dumpsters
Too busy cornering the market in bodega technology to have a proper trash can
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