tripinjackal t1_iqvtxns wrote on October 3, 2022 at 1:59 PM

It probably cost $15 million dollars and took 5 years of dedicated work across multiple municipal departments to make this happen.

damnatio_memoriae t1_iqwvpse wrote on October 3, 2022 at 6:09 PM

i think there was a post a few weeks ago that pretty much said exactly that. they spent a bunch of money researching and prototyping and whatever they came with didn't even work (how hard is it to build a container anyway?).

edit -- here's the post i was thinking of:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/w3jdph/nycs_new_containerized_trash_bins_arent_leakproof/