Run 95 Garbage

This day and age there is a lot of things we take advantage of.  Every day I throw things in the trash and never think of them again.  It just disappears, right?  It is pretty easy to ignore the trash here.  The majority is kept out of sight, until late I'm the evening, then in middle of night, while most are asleep, the NYC trash fairy comes and sweeps it all away.

But in reality, NYC trash is not laughing matter.  Here's the fact about NYC Sanitation:

Today, the Department is the world's largest, collecting over 10,500 tons of residential and institutional refuse and 1,760 tons of recyclables a day. The City's businesses, whose waste is collected by private carting companies, generate another 13,000 tons of refuse each day. And under the leadership of Commissioner John J. Doherty, New York City's streets are cleaner today then they have been in over 35 years.

The Department serves the City out of 59 Districts, using approximately 5,700 vehicles that include:

• 2,230 collection trucks
• 450 mechanical street sweepers
• 275 specialized collection trucks
• 365 salt/sand spreaders
• 298 front end loaders, and
• 2,360 various other support vehicles

In December 2001 the city's last land fill reach capacity and closed.  We now ship all of our trash to out of state landfills.


City of Systems: Waste Removal from Urban Omnibus on Vimeo.

On a lighter note, the very first thing that came up in my internet search of NYC garbage was an artist who creates artistic cubes from NYC garbage.  http://nycgarbage.com

There is also a Trash Museum, curated by a sanitation worker, consisting entirely of art rescued from household trash...  I'm going there as soon as I can.. be right back for an update...
  

Time: 9 pm
Distance: 5.25 miles
Time: 45:21
Music: Lauren Alaina