On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat intermingled with discarded furniture. Several contained ragged holes in the sides, where they'd been chewed through by rats the night before.
Curbside trash is a problem in NYC. Officials have a not-so-novel fix: plastic bins
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/09/1210494331/trash-problem-nyc-fix-plastic-bins
7 Comments
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 2y
Huh, today I learned that NYC just leave their trash outside to be picked up, instead of in containers.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 2y
Yeah there's literally just piles of garbage lining all the streets. Then they call it the greatest city on earth 🙄
cybervseas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
It's an infamous part of city life, at least in Manhattan!
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Wait til you smell it!
money_loo@1337lemmy.com · 2 pts · 2y
They actually had Oscar the grouch style trash containers up until the sanitation strike of 1968. For whatever reason they just never came back after the strike ended.
ALavaPulsar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
I always felt so bad for the sanitation workers who had to spend all day picking up heavy bags of trash and throwing them in the back of the truck.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y
It's gotta be hard work.