Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "What Happens To NYC’s 3.2 Million Tons Of Trash | Big Business | Business Insider" video.

@racingtheweb Every 14 days, a fortnight is 14 days, bin collections used to be weekly on the same day each week, but now that we have 6 or 7 different bins (depending on where you stay) the collections are now 14 days apart. So every second Thursday is the main black bin which is usually empty, every second Tuesday is the blue bin with paper in it, the purple bin with plastic and metal in it is every second Friday but they often don't turn up. The brown bin with the garden waste is not mandatory, you call the local authority when the bin is full of grass cuttings and dead plants and they will pick it up. I think this is because so few people use the brown bin so no need to have a regular pick up. We used to have green bins for glass but they took them away and just started placing large green dumpster-sized bins at the end of every street. So now you have to carry your glass to the end of the street and drop them in. It's noisy and everyone on the street gets to see how much of an alcoholic you are. Then we also have tiny little food-waste bins that look like picnic hampers - not many people use them because food waste can just be fed to your pets or fed to your vegetables in the garden :) "Food waste is good waste" as my dad, the gardener, used to say.
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@racingtheweb Trash collection is included in our main tax which is known as "council tax", in the UK the word council has several different meanings and one of those meanings is "local government". So your council tax is your local government tax and it covers almost everything. So council tax pays for trash collection, street lighting, street cleaning, the police, fire service, water usage, it generally covers most things and it is about £1200 per year (1400 euros). My bill is always £98.80 each month so that's pretty much 1200 annually. It seems quite steep to some people but after you pay your council tax you are only left to pay for electricity/gas and food. Your Italian trash bill would be more than a third of our whole council tax 0_o
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"This can right here would probably have contained maybe a can's worth of beans."
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7:51 Holy moly, when the WTC was built it was literally on the edge of the river. That's crazy.
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In the UK we have recycling bins for everything now, plastic, metal, glass, paper, food waste, garden waste, in fact the only thing that goes into my main bin is the contents of my vacuum cleaner. It angers and saddens me when I put out the main bin every fortnight and I see some of my neighbour's bins are overflowing while mine is only about a quarter full, it makes me wonder what crap they are throwing in there that can't be recycled.
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Oh, and rent, I forget about rent because I own my house but if someone did not own their house they would obviously have to pay rent/mortgage.
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