[notirk]

Residential buildings in NYC need to separate their trash into three types: recyclable containers, paper, and general trash. How is this accounted for with a single tube system? Do they have exemptions from the law? Can they only drop certain things into the shoot on certain days?

[gdilla]

Separation comes post-chuck. In other words, they have people sort it afterwards. All those public trash cans in NYC too - they sort it downstream.