chapotraphouse

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?

it's not real innovation unless you unlock them with a QR code from an app

Greatest city in da world baby! Big Apple #1!

Yeah I went there like 15 years ago during a heat wave and the main thing I remember is just how incredibly disgusting the whole city smelled

Just tossed the garbage bags onto the sidewalks. How else do you think New York rats managed to get so big?

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

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.

These are iDumpsters with built in AI functionality and cameras with facial recognition.

Yeah NYC just rolled out garbage bins like a year ago and pretended like it's some new invention.

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.