[notacop31337]

Wait what are you on about? Are you serious that you just stick bin bags on the street full? Where are the bins? What?

I'm not from NYC or even the US, why wouldn't you just use bins that the bags go in? I don't understand, please help me understand this. I'm thoroughly confused.

[bombcar]

Trash in NY is literally piled up for collection.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=new+york+trash

Most cities in the USA have either individual trash cans (suburbs/low density, once a week): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UluH0QmnwfM (ONE HOUR???) or dumpsters/dedicated crushers (high density, can be once a day): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDTrUs6TeNc

[mnutt]

The sidewalks aren’t wide enough for the kinds of bins needed for the amount of trash generated (NYC is dense) and nobody wants to give up free parking spaces to put the bins in the street as of yet.

[asdff]

This is actually just a building code issue. In other cities, ordinances mandate trash rooms or trash chutes for mulitfamily buildings to avoid these issues. One could argue "but nyc grew before sane building codes," but so did boston, or chicago, and plenty of other denser cities that don't have this issue because they have sensible ordinances in place regarding waste management.

I'm willing to bet landlords don't want to make these investments to their properties in nyc, and have more of a voice in local government than their tenants, who are probably mostly indifferent about the issue at this point anyhow.

[bmicraft]

Many cities have a regular bin-sized contraption where you throw you stuff in and it gets compacted into a big underground container that is part of the sidewalk. They then either get lifted and emptied of sucked empty by a garbage truck.

The sidewalks are plenty wide for that, nyc doesn't even come close to how narrow some european cities without such problems are.

[NovemberWhiskey]

You live in an apartment building that's 47 stories tall and has 350 units. Do you expect all of the residents individually to take bins out to the front of the building?

[asdff]

I've lived in a big apartment complex before. The invention that solves this problem is called a chute and a dumpster.

[notacop31337]

I understand what you're saying but NYC isn't exactly the only city in the world with large apartment buildings.

[jacobsenscott]

You would expect the apt building provides dumpsters

[bmicraft]

Usually such buildings would have a garbage room with big bins that get emptied regularly - at least in sane cities.