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The purpose is so that garbage trucks can collect the trash. NYC has very few alleys.
Other large cities manage to have trash bins on wheels to collect trash without making it a garbagefest for the rats and other vermin.
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The purpose is so that garbage trucks can collect the trash. NYC has very few alleys.
Other large cities manage to have trash bins on wheels to collect trash without making it a garbagefest for the rats and other vermin.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/upshot/nyc-tr...
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Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
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I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings. Even in the suburbs, residents of single-family houses typically need to bring their garbage/recycling bins to the end of their driveways. I think the only time that this isn't…
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Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
DSNY is pushing hard on getting all trash containerized. Food-related businesses were required to start last summer, all commercial trash's requirement hit just a couple of weeks ago, and residential is rolling out.
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I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.
I think you're being sarcastic, but the purpose of leaving the garbage bins outside is so that the garbage trucks can pick them up, as their contract stipulates that they pick up from the sidewalk and not from inside the (numerous) buildings. Even in the suburbs, residents of single-family houses typically need to bring their garbage/recycling bins to the end of their driveways. I think the only time that this isn't…
What is the purpose of piles?
Anyone from NYC know what phenomenon causes the short period up and down?
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Exactly -- this chart exhibits massive undercoverage bias for the actual proxy measure (number of daily rat sightings), except the skew in this case likely means the actual value is much higher. Somehow, I'm thinking that this won't come as a surprise to any NYC resident.
I was surprised when I visited to see piles of garbage left out on the sidewalks, seemingly with no purpose other than to breed rats.