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Butt_Sauce t1_iqxc1wg wrote

Reply to comment by mule_roany_mare in NYC has to be the only city in the world where it's a significant political accomplishment to deploy a single trash bin by scooterflaneuse

“1 dumpster per block” X 100k blocks… yeah no big deal. And that’s assuming you only need one per block. Have you seen the mountains of garbage on some streets? What happens when the garbage doesn’t fit?

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mule_roany_mare t1_iqxjq5b wrote

If I was the trash Czar & building this infrastructure I'd schedule dumpsters to be emptied when they are near full instead of on a schedule, triggered by LoRaWAN sensors.

So you'd pick up the full dumpsters & the total collections wouldn't rise because you could leave the not-full dumpsters longer.

You can't compare one time infrastructure costs to ongoing annual costs. Even a small increase in trash efficiency will pay for major outlays in a decade. Not to mention the quality of life improvements too numerous to be quantifiable.

Lets say the infrastructure costs a billion dollars... That's 6 months of the sanitation budget. a 5% increase in efficiency would pay for itself in one decade and pay dividends for the next 90

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