EVG Trash Can Correspondent Bobby Williams spotted a worker installing one of those solar-powered, digitalized trash compactors today in Tompkins Square Park ... joining, uh, a few others that arrived in the past few years.
Dubbed BigBelly, these suckers can hold five times the amount of garbage as a traditional trash receptacle and can reduce trash collection by 80 percent, as I cut-n-paste from a Villager article from 2011.
Depending on the broker, the BigBelly can also accommodate two bunk beds and one grill.
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Can the "Big Belly" dispose of realtors/aka developers?
Can someone explain how this works? Is this a replacement for regular, street corner trash cans? Or is this more like a recycling center where anyone can dump household trash without getting a fine?
Thank you so much for your wit... it's the little articles that keep me coming back to this site day after day.:-)
If you don't have mail or anything that identifies you in your trash—and you should recycle your envelopes anyway—you shouldn't get a fine.
My neighbor two doors down caught me on surveillance, however, disposing of some garbage in his trash. Apparently they pay private carting, unlike the other residents of the block, because he got very snippy about it.
I just hope it costs us tax payers less than it costs to pay the 25 park attendants who sit on there ass while there is trash and garbage strewn all around the park at 11:00 in the morning.
My friend works in there. There are attendants in each unit and their job is to compress and compact the garbage so that it fits five times as much as a regular receptacle.
He said the job pays well ($18 hr) and there is a little TV and mini fridge in the unit to store snacks. During the down time, he can take a nap, since there is no supervisor always checking up on him.
The company is hiring and if you walk up and knock on the side of the box, he will hand you an application. Just make sure to knock loudly in case he is napping.
I wonder how many people will mistake these boxes for the donation bins popping up everywhere?
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