• masterspace@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      The bins don’t actually travel all the way to New Jersey, they stay on the street in front of your building, they’re just to prevent having massive piles of garbage lining every single New York street, every single week.

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        3 months ago

        They stay on the street in front of your building

        You mean like every other municipality in the United States?

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          3 months ago

          Yeah, NYC is the only place in the US that didn’t have these. I believe it was a union or mafia thing. Basically the trucks that pick up bags of trash require 3 workers and the ones that pick up the trash cans only require 2. That’s why they didn’t exist. It’s stupid.