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Why the fuck couldn't regular trash cans and dumpsters work
because then anyone could put garbage in the receptacle.
that's nowhere near as efficient as just tossing it in the street.
NYC has been paying to have it's garbage hauled as far away as Virginia to go into landfills.
personally, I think NYC should have all garbage services halted for a year so they can understand exactly what it is they "create", culturallyand materially speaking.
This is when you're so capitalism brained that you're willing to shoot yourself in the foot. So much unnecessary complexity, so many ways for things to break, all just to keep a random pedestrian from throwing a sandwich wrapper in a random bin. So concerned about someone getting a service they 'don't deserve' for free that they would rather live in filth than just eat the minor cost and live in a sanitary city.
These are iDumpsters with built in AI functionality and cameras with facial recognition.
You joke but we noticed a while ago that the dumpsters at my work have cameras in them now. When I asked why the fuck they needed that, I was told it got the garbage collection company a discount on insurance.
But Empire Bins have what trash craves! It's got javascript!
Regular bins and dumpsters are not efficient for handling the amount of garbage in such a densely populated area. With larger underground dumpsters like these, the bin men won't have to roll a load bins and dumpsters to the dump truck and empty them, instead they can either empty the single dumpster with a giant vacuum hose or with a crane that lifts up the entire dumpster.
??? regular trash cans exist that a truck can just lift and dump. My town uses them. My trash can can probably fit like, two weeks of trash in it, too.
And, what? Same shit with dumpsters... they're already designed to be lifted and dumped into trucks
The underground ones have greater capacity and you get most of the unsightly dumpster out of view by burying it.