New York City is overhauling its waste management system to address sidewalk congestion, pest infestations, and high operational costs. The city generates millions of pounds of residential and commercial trash daily, historically left on sidewalks in plastic bags. Municipal initiatives are now expanding mandatory containerization rules for businesses and residential buildings, while restructuring commercial waste collection into designated zones. These reforms aim to modernize collection logistics, improve street cleanliness, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the city.
- New York City produces tens of millions of pounds of commercial and residential garbage each day.
- The city is phasing out loose curbside trash bags in favor of standardized, sealed bins to mitigate rodent problems and clear walkways.
- A commercial waste zone system is being implemented to divide the city into geographic zones, cutting down redundant private truck routes and traffic emissions.
- Specialized automated side-loader trucks and shared on-street container systems are being deployed to handle high-density residential areas.
- The modernization efforts aim to improve sanitation worker safety and enhance overall operational efficiency across the five boroughs.
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NYC – the most provincial city in the world. Why must NYC re-invent the wheel for every problem. These containers have been used in Europe and elsewhere for decades. Study, question, imitate, act. Can't build a subway, can't keep pedestrains away from traffic, can't add handicap facilties to anything, can't keep cars out of Midtown. Stunning.
Go to Europe and checkout how they do it. It is actually very simple but this is ‘merica and garbage piles are part of the famous skyline.
Genius!! What are they going to invent next? The bidet? Wellcolme to the 20th century NY!
I am so surprised that New York is still in the 18th century, you need to come to the real world of Oz.
ESKILSTUNA, SWEDEN! Rainbow colored trash bags. Have people put metals, glass, plastic, organics, paper in different colored bags. You dont need a robot too presort colors….
I like how these brand new things already have graffiti on them
Gutter sweeping drones running 24/7
4 min before "A.I.". They just can't help themselves.
Poor rats, they are going to starve 😢
Other countries force the people to split food waste from paper, bottles, and trash.
Now you have to figure how to reduce battery fires from these dumpsters.🔥🔥🔥
One problem I see is that even the new containers are probably filled with bags of trash. To sort the contents you first have to empty the bags.
While I'm not a fan of incineration — no matter what they say in Copenhagen, there's still going to be toxic gases and toxic residue that still needs to be stored someplace — either incinerating or composting the raw trash is one way to "simply" reduce the volume. But you still need to deal with what comes out the other end.
So it's a fancy garbage can. You could have just bought a regular garbage can. Like all the other states. I thought the garbage can is like crush the garbage in it. You just made expensive garbage cans.
"Fresh Kills Landfill"
Well, that is an incredibly suspicious name.
Most people don't realize that NYC's street grid was designed almost entirely without back alleys, which is why every single bin has to fight for curb space.
Fire Mandami
You’d think we’d mention that this whole mess is due to the mob dominating trash pickup – and NIMBYs making internal trash handling in big buildings impossible.
yall been chugging trash on the streets and now think "can a trash bin really solve our problems?".
are you insane?
This wont solve it as a nyer because of how congested sidewalks and roads are in nyc. There is way too many people and lack of open space.
Oh NYC really have funds for pay those problem?
As a viewer from India, I wish we had atleast this kinda robust Waste management program ( though a few cities have successfully created a program thats never enough) Every street we have is filled with trash and garbage and , instead of spending money on These kinda programme that would have positive results overall , they never care to create one program at all 😢.
I think we could successfully mitigate the issue by 2070 or 2090 given the state of our nature
I don’t like this… now trash is always outside and we lose parking and have to look at huge bins that look like porter potties! Terrible. Killing the vibe of nyc streets.
No way out
That would annoy me
Carbonise the trash into rocks push the sea wall out
If they picked up the trash on time it wouldn't be such a big issue.
BS – NYC waste does not all go to WTE plants … it primarily goes to landfills. I wish other states would stop accepting NYC garbage and let them keep it.
They should focus with the biggest one, which is in the White House.
It's 2026 and the US discovers and is in awe trash containers. What a time to be alive.
I've seen these over in Europe. The Netherlands has some that go into the ground, which would make more sense in NYC due to volume of trash. These containers they're showing won't hold all the trash NYC produces.
Why can’t NYC just burn the trash for energy? That’s what Tokyo does.
If you take away all that food from the rats they will go crazy with hunger and feed on human flesh
better for the workers they dont have to lift and get tired
I’m sorry but in Italy we had that since the 80’s, this is insane
Asian country has garbage problem too
"Businesses have been required to use closed bin since 2024" so what were they using before then?
You mean to say the most advance country in the world just figured out bins that Australian has been using for 20+ years…
A first world city discovering a most basic invention.
The man who just recently discovered dumpsters, thinks he can deploy an AI powered trash sorter.
Absolutely deranged.
How is this not the simplest and most obvious solution?
This would be a great idea if there was a real solution to recyclability. As we all know 80 to 90% of plastic is not recyclable so we should focus on something else
Gente mas é uma solução tão basica – pq demorou tanto?
we have this for decades
In Europe we are sorting our garbage…..and we survive it.
Recycling, plz
Please learn from the netherlands!!
Imagine paying all that money and taxes 🥴
great remake! I found the original video, it was a black/white silent movie filmed in Europe in the last century.
No where to dump it? Try the front lawn of the white house.