So they just leave them in the borrows after they asphyxiate them? The smell on that street must be out of this world.
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A lot of New York streets already stink. That's where they put their trash for pickup....without bins most of the time as far as I know.
I've been there 3 times and was always shocked by the smell.
I was amused by all the trash on the streets in NYC. They have those regular solar trash compactor cans that you see in other cities, but the door where you remove the can is open and trash has spilled out to cover a 10' wide area of the sidewalk around the cans. It seems crazy to me! Idk why they didn't build the city with alleys like every other major city I've been to.
Old cities with alleys had streets or walkways made into alleys. Newer cities were designed to have alleys.
New York(Manhattan) had their city planning designed to maximize realestate starting in 1811. Lower Manhattan does have alleys and there are some here and there.
The trash on the street is because there are no bins. There are no bins because the cars pack the streets and prevent access and there are no alleys. There are other reasons there are no bins like terrorism, vandalism, and cost. So they instead just toss bags on the street and that is collected twice a week.
There was a vacuum trash removal system tried out on Roosevelt Island since '75. All the trash gets sucked to a central collection from holding areas in the buildings. It goes get clogged, as you would imagine, but it is a better system than the truck emissions and sidewalk trash. They don't implement it widely because the underground of Manhattan is a noodle bowl of infrastructure that pretty much can't accommodate the 24"+ diameter pipes.
I'm not a big city person but if I were would want a vacuum trash disposal service, it just makes so much more sense that individual collections.
There were bins when I visited, but they were all busted open and overflowing like I described. That was a few blocks from Times Square, by Joe's Pizza. I didn't see any bins or trash down in the financial district though. NYC is a fun place to visit, but I definitely wouldn't want to live there.
It's NYC, there's literally mountains of garbage a day or two a week
Nah it'll be alright the other rats will eat them and it'll figure itself out
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It's the upper east side they can deal with it
This is how you make carbon monoxide resistant rats!!
This tactic isn't new.
Surprise, that rat hole goes to a basement apartment