Waste Management

[Vojnik_Vahaj]

Yea, I genuinely don't understand how we don't have communal bins for waste management

Oh no, I absolutely get why this hasn't been a thing here. Can you imagine the uproar if A) we told people that they needed to walk down the block to drop their garbage into the bin, or B) that the city was going to be installing waste containers in front of their house? 

I saw these in action while visiting a friend in Hamburg, and I think they're great - they kept the streets clean of all that visual (and literal) litter, and the trucks came by at like 7am to empty them out, but you can drop off your bags whenever they get full, so it's not like you need to be out at 6am to make sure the trash in on the curb. Everything sits underground so you don't see or smell it. I'd be in full support of moving to this kind of model, but I do think it would be an uphill battle to convince people to get onboard. Maybe if we started in the downtown cores and then slowly spread outwards?

Yea, I've seen them in my homeland as well(2nd world country) and they work great in the cities. We could perhaps integrate them with the neighborhood mailboxes+have a landscaped barrier(hedges or something) which would lessen the blow from people who'll have them in front of their house. NIMBYs gotta NIMBY though and it will be tough. The downtown cores-outward is a good idea