This combined with the initiative to increase green space across the city to help combat heat and air quality issues seem like such easy decisions when profit for your campaign donors isnt your driving factor in policy decisions
The dumpsters in Michigan are privately leased by the business who get them placed on their lot and periodically picked up.
Cities arenât paying for your trash pick up. Is trash collection a free public service in NYC?
Or are there no places for buildings to place a dumpster which can be picked up, and the issue just converting more street parking into spots buildings could lease to place dumpsters on?
I think itâs important to understand that for much of our country, the government taking any kind of action to solve problems is always going to be greeted as âcommunismâ because of how willfully stupid people are here.
I remember taking a class trip to NYC in 8th grade. I stepped off the bus and immediately stared gagging because the air smelled so bad. As a kid from rural Maine I was not prepared for trash day in China town on a hot day.
This is what fascinates me the most: most of what I have read from him are just normal commonsense policies, well-established in many cities of Europe or Asia. How is he in any way radical?
Because the "radical" left in this country would be considered centrists literally anywhere else. The right wing has done such incredible damage to this country that centrist policies that benefit everyone seem extreme to them.
Radical left in the US means being reasonable and responding to overwhelming evidence several decades late. Also the gov shouldn't proudly murder its citizens
You want to know the most interesting part? His city run grocery stores are so controversial, yet its a policy partially borrowed from the deep south red states, who have controlled the distribution of liquor through ABC stores for 30 years+ (see North Carolina, for example). Conservatives really are just that farking stupid to disagree with a policy because of the person, not the substance
Exactly. That's why it is a marketplace with competition because it sounds like a good solution to conservatives embracing a capitalist system when that's what we have been doing and why we pay twice and have a lower life expectancy. But if you have a black man propose that, death panels!
Because what people call âradicalâ, âleftistâ or even âprogressiveâ in the US is considered ânormalâ in basically every other industrialized country on the planet.
Racism and fear of communism. Thats literally the only reason why. Much of what he has done is already well established policy in european cities, the main reason he is hated is because of good ol "fuck muslims" sentiment and 60s/70s propaganda that tought Americans to fear anything even remotely benefiting the lower classes as communism.
So many cities have terrible mayors that just having a basic idea of how the world works and what makes people annoyed adds multiple points to your approval rating.
Itâs mostly cult brainwashing here in America. You can ask our conservatives if doing âXâ thing is bad and theyâd agree, but tell them Trump did âXâ and theyâd start making all sorts of excuses for him. Not sure why this conman has that much charm to our conservatives, but he does.
The status quo is sitting on your butt all day and hoping the city doesn't collapse under your term, or at least if it does that your wealth is not affected. Anything other than that is to be radical.
Because the far right has spent the past 12 years slowly breaking down rights to make people easier to control through apathy that any sense of genuine improvement is baffling to us.
This is how I feel as an autistic adult who tries to help out their family memebers with obvious things that can be done with almost no effort, but then having them tell you no because they don't want you to "ruin" anything. đ
i remember seeing comments on insta/fb about how this was horrible because it takes parking. never knew people cared so much about parking directly next to piles of trash.Â
I just like seeing the comments that make jokes of the random dude who makes 35k a year having his day ruined at this news, to literally anything he does.
People might one day wake up and realize that they live in a society that doesn't really want for resources like we all pretend, and there's always been the option of using them to make everyone's life better.
But we keep pulling the "throw everything into the fire to make more money for those in charge" lever.
58-year-old man making under $30k/yr who has never been more than twelve miles from the hospital of his birth in Podunk Arkansas is crashing out over New York dumpsters.
My MAGA coworker, in his 60's, has admitted he has never been to a state that doesn't border Louisiana (where we live), and my god does he complain about every little thing that happens in the state of New York.
Yeah, the question is now âis it sustainableâ? Most of these changes were planned out in advance and are just finishing up during his stay in office. So the question is will all the new policies negatively affect NYâs budget and will taxes have to compensate? If taxes have to compensate then you could see companies move out of NYC to avoid taxes which would cut down NYCâs revenue.
All and all itâs probably too early to say itâs successful but so far itâs looking good. Time will tell though and if it remains successful Iâd like to see some of his policies expanding to other places.
This is the thing about good governance. Once you have someone in power who actually uses their power to serve their community, people start to realize that things actually can improve and the reasons their lives havenât improved is because the people in power have no interest in actually improving your lives.
Imagine how many other things could get done if the politicians just look at public money and think "Let me use this to make things better for the public."
This program was created by the previous mayor. More than 1 million trash bins had to be purchased by landlords die to new regulations forcing them followed by a 1000 of these big ones. These big ones are also custom designs combined with custom loading trucks created by the previous mayor.
At the same point, the previous mayor dragged his feet and never actually implemented it.
That's kind of the difference. A lot of the projects Mamdani is doing had funds already earmarked or had been approved. Part of what he's doing is looking for these projects and making sure they actually get done. Mamdani has been way more successful at navigating the red tape and getting the physical labor done than some of his predecessors. And part is because the dude is legit in his office working everyday to manage things
More than a 1000 where placed, which is the same amount Mamdani is planning to place this year. These are also paired with custom designed loading trucks that also had to be developed by Adams.
All the red tape of developing the program was already finished. What red rape did Mamdani solve? The program exists, the design and manufacturing was done, ... all the hard parts were done. It's just a matter of trowing money at it. Its great that he will, and that it will be expanded even more.
These bins were actually a small part of Adams program. He made stricter regulation requiring the landlords to purchase over a 1 million trash bins. There bins were available for purchase in stores all over NY. Making landlords pay for them is a plus too.
From what I gather, Adams drug his feet in actually implementing this thing. That's the thing with Mamdani. Quite a bit of the stuff he's doing has already had plans to get said stuff put into use, but previous mayors weren't actually getting shit done for some reason or another.
See any other mayor could have done this but they would be so busy lining potential vendors for bribes, carving out special exempt areas for rich assholes , that it would take the better part of their term that it would take the better part of their term to extract all the profit
Weâre gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And youâll say, âPlease, please. Itâs too much winning. We canât take it anymore, Mr. Mamdani, itâs too much.â And Iâll say, âNo it isnât. We have to keep winning. We have to win more!
âTheyâ hate him because he puts their incompetence on full display. My guy is just doing basic, common sense decisions and paying for it with the taxes you already pay. The answer to âwho will pay for it?â Has always been US, weâre already paying just never receiving .
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âMamdanis mayoralty is fascinating because half of what it does consist of THINGS THAT WERE ALREADY IN PLACE and the other half IS REDDIT GIVING CREDIT FOR IDEALS THAT HAVENT HAPPENED YET.â
Everyone paints this guy as a radical. He's just doing basic shit that everyone has been failing to do for years. What sucks for him, he's got a lot of catching up to do to other modern cities. So once he gets things up to par, they will frame it as ridiculous spending. It's going to cost a lot to get the city to where it should be.
The Empire Bin pilot program was started in 2023 and has been expanded during 2024 and 2025. The interesting part will be seeing if the electronic locks hold up with expanded use.
Well, one of the most iconic view in Americano media is the bleak tin bins and black garbage bags piled up on the sides of streets in New York, preferably with some "sewer smoke" in the background.
So, I guess he's destroying the American legacy now?
No offense to Mamdani but at least some of this, like the middle school AI ban, just seems to be stuff that was happening already, but Mamdani is revolutionary among modern Democrats for taking credit for it rather than saying 'Oh god I'm so sorry' and being ashamed of policies meant to help his constituents.
Which, to be clear, is not a bad thing. We definitely need more politicians who aren't shamed into being Republicans Lite to the point that even inoffensive improvements are paralyzed.
Didn't they hire a consultant for their rat problem a couple years ago, they said to start using garbage cans and the rats would go away, and they still hadn't?
The previous ones were boomer bum career politicians who never accomplished anything besides getting re-elected by other boomers with high school diplomas and 15 houses.
He keeps stealing ideas from the Europeans that like their governments.
It's almost as if all the ideas from hundreds of years have been tried and there's a top 100 that make people happier and everything better at the lowest cost.
Id guarantee that the folks who work for the departments that manage waste had this plan for years. Id feel bad for them, having all their success attributed to Mamdani, but no one actually takes these posts seriously.
except the problem isnt the bins but the trash never getting picked up in new york. New york creates so much trash and the design of the city doesnt allow much place to put it. these containers are going to fill up quick and result in the same problem. you really need more frequent trash pick up
It's actually really interesting because he just proclaims he's going to do something and declares that it will solve a problem and his glazers pretend he's already accomplished the thing in perpetuity. He's been the mayor for a few months, maybe get off your knees and wait three years to see what actually happens.
I've never been to NYC so this might come off as a silly question, but prior to this mayor have people just been throwing their refuse out into the street? I can understand occasional littering, but this reads as though people are just throwing trash out into the street for the rats.
All politicans have two buttons they can press, one is a button to help people in their district, state and country to maie life better and the other sends a billion to israel and Epstein class. Unfortunately most our politicians are too stupid to even see the first button
Elected officials doing their jobs and telling people what they did for you, love that. Honestly, I wish there were more people that actually helped out the average people and just made life more tolerable. In our corrupt hellscape of a country.
His mayoral term so far consists of micromanaging things that were already happening and then taking credit for them.
You know, like he took credit for all the potholes being filled despite fewer being filled in his first year than were under the previous administration.
A survey in a year will show nyc is still as dirty as before this and it was a waste of money. Itâs not that hard to not throw your trash on the ground, people do it because theyâre disrespectful.
(From the point of view of an outsider looking in)
Efficient waste removal? Affordable housing? Meeting tue needs of his city's inhabitants? Doing what hebsaid he would do while campaigning? He's clearly radical left! Clearly a communist! Grrr
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Itâs so funny how this policy was originated under Eric Adams but, because he was such an unlikable and corrupt slug whoâs now selling out for AI data centers, weâre all happy to give Zohran all the credit.
Futuristic trash cans isnt going to change the culture of the people to make them actually put the trash into the cans.... They already have trash cans and people dont care to use them. I know people really want to believe it's a good idea and will solve the problem, but it won't.
Mamdani is using his time and the cityâs money to make things better for New Yorkers. Other mayors spend their time on filling their pockets and their friendâs pockets, how could they even spend time on trash.
In their fear of communism, some people delude themselves into believing that only giving a fuck about yourself is the American way.
It's ironic because America used to be the land of liberty. So many classic American movies made in Hollywood that shaped out ideals as kids have been stories of foreigners arriving on a ship to America and starting their journey to live the American dream.
Even moreso than the actual things he is doing, the best part of his mayorship is that he is actually doing stuff people want to see done. Â He is showing us what can happen when you get someone who actually cares. Â Stuff can change, and it can change fast. Â Potholes donât have to sit around for ever, you can actually just fix them. Â Crazy concept.
I've always lived in the South and when I visit the north I'm always shocked at how far behind in terms of infrastructure the area is.
Streets are more narrow, gas stations do not have working plumbing they have a porta potty treasure the street with people on the payroll to pick up the trash
Much inefficiency
I know there are European cities that have been doing this for like two decades already.
I canât stand those social media posts, âJapan is living in the future!â No itâs not, America has so much bureaucracy and political stalemates that nothing innovative gets approved- good on him.
because all the things new yorkerâs have wanted for decades have been sitting on the office desk but every mayor prior just wanted to get rich instead enrich NYC
this is what mayors should be doing.. focusing on trash pickup/cleanliness, schools, road maintenance/public transit, crime and homelessness. If those are all addressed you have an amazing city.
Love this guy, but we've had these bins in NYC for awhile now. They're locked and not accessible for public dumping. We could do with more of them though, as there are still lots of garbage bag piles on the sidewalk.
The difference between Mamdani and other democrats, is Mamdani does whats best for the people, and other democrats do whats best for corporations. The Republicans do whats best for themselves, which equates to whats best for their top doners, or the corporations that offer them the sweetest deals when they leave politics.
There are negative conspiracy theories about Mamdani. He needs all the educated, informed, eloquent support he can get. Thanks to all on this platform.
Itâs what Mayor Giuliani did when he first became mayor. Cleaned up NYC doing the simple things that ppl noticeâŚbroken down cars towed away, garbage cleaned up, subway system cleaned up. He was considered one of the greatest mayors of NYC until his downfall the last decade when his head was so far shoved up trumps ass he forgot who the hell he was.
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u/bsEEmsCE Sep 05 '26
always smelled awful walking through NYC and piles of trash bags sit on the curb waiting for pickup. Some common sense city enhancement right here.