Gothamist
Futuristic garbage cans will soon appear on New York City streets following a delay tied to a feature of the newfangled $1,000 trash receptacles.
The cans, designed by Group Project, have a lightweight plastic liner inside a perforated metal and concrete shell, topped by a swinging lid. The first shipment of 300 trash cans arrived this month and will be installed around the city in the next few weeks, said Sanitation Commissioner Jessica Tisch. More
That is way cheaper than the $2,900 San Francisco spent.
I would build a trash can that rats can’t get into.
Now they will have to spend $Millions, to teach people to use them.
Gee NYC, if you hadn’t banned guns, maybe you wouldn’t have a rat problem (both the 4 footed and 2 footed kind).
Bets on how long the new, $1000 trash cans will last?
Their first consideration: How many ballots from Republican districts can each hold?
ahhh yes the priorities of my wonderful city. this is incredibly retarded but not at the level of retardation as to what they are doing in regards to crosswalks. it looks like a F’ng crime scene where 34 people got shot and it last for 2 weeks
And, they had the polythylene liners foreign made. Way to go.
“gorgeous” outer shells — they’re garbage cans !!!
They’ll still have to be emptied by hand, by sanitation workers, gotta keep those Union Jobs.
Spending over a $Million dollars and begging Washington DC for more money for placing illegal immigrants in Hotels.
cowgirl…Quebec and Portugal if i’m not mistaken. nothing to see here please move along
Helluva way to treat the city mascot!
I have a very vivid imagination yet I’m not able to fantasize about what it may be like to piss away money as though it’s merely air passing through your hands. As though there is absolutely NO connection between earning money and totally pissing it away.
Then again; I ain’t a liberal in charge of other peoples’ money.
My trash can has a swinging lid too. Cost $9 at the dollar store.
When I read these would be trash cans of the future I figured they’d empty themselves and take DNA off of miscreants to instantly identify them for the police. Nope, just a plastic core with a flip lid to tear off and throw at the police and a concrete bass to better smash shop windows. These will work out just fine.
It looks like a fragmentation device.
And they only need 23,000 of them x 1,000 dollars each and I bet the liners replacements cost as much as the whole can.
Garbage men are real gentle with our cans Ha!
Do not trust ANYTHING New York City govt does.