Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson, "New York Today: Complaints of Dirty Streets", contributed by Kristine Gerges, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 24 April 2018, accessed 29 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/new-york-today-complaints-dirty-streets
Critical Commentary
“Trash not treasure”
Our city generates a lot of trash. The Department of Sanitation collected 3,196,200 tons of residential trash (excluding recyclables) last year. That’s around 749 pounds per New Yorker, or just over two pounds per resident per day.