Don’t worry, stores and restaurants in the US that throw away perfectly good food at the end of the night also lock their dumpsters so that homeless people can’t get in there and eat the discarded food.
Plus, a bunch of electronics and moving parts that will, at some point, go wrong, right in the middle of a trade war that might make it prohibitively expensive to import electronic components, while City revenues and budget keeps getting cut (except for the NYPD).
I’m sure this won’t lead to the bins being permanently closed, later becoming white elephants and trash going back on the streets. What’s so hard about adding a lever or a handle to open the bin, like any other civilized city in the world?
Ah, access-only trash removal! This will certainly help improve the overall trash situation.
Oh, now I get it. The bins aren’t there to be useful or sanitary. They’re to stop homeless people from going through trash.
America has weaponized basic public services
In Poland we solve this the old-fashioned way — by storing the shared bins in a precariously built shed locked with a normal key lock
Don’t worry, stores and restaurants in the US that throw away perfectly good food at the end of the night also lock their dumpsters so that homeless people can’t get in there and eat the discarded food.
Plus, a bunch of electronics and moving parts that will, at some point, go wrong, right in the middle of a trade war that might make it prohibitively expensive to import electronic components, while City revenues and budget keeps getting cut (except for the NYPD).
I’m sure this won’t lead to the bins being permanently closed, later becoming white elephants and trash going back on the streets. What’s so hard about adding a lever or a handle to open the bin, like any other civilized city in the world?
But it does have the step-on lever
Yeah but what good is it if I need electronics to use it?
A hammer might solve those electronics
wifi outage will render the entire city unable to access trash cans lmaooooo
If they’re hooking it up to wifi that’s even worse. More likely it’s just simple NFC, i.e. not reliant on a network.
Are…are you serious?