[MisterTea]

> NYC's sanitation workers are notoriously careless about handling the trash, and my pet theory is that a sizable portion of street litter actually originates in the sanitation workers spilling trash on pickup day.

DSNY, aka Sanitation, does not pick up trash from commercial businesses, only residencies. Businesses have to hire a private carter. Private carters are notorious for not giving two fucks. They have also been responsible for many pedestrian accidents as well.

I have never really noticed a surge in trash in the streets after DSNY comes by. Though, after schools opened, my house is around the corner from a public school and I see an immediate surge of snack wrappers tossed on my lawn. Same with the building I own near another school, wrapper trash all over.

[atombender]

I frequently see DSNY workers spill trash around when it's been improperly bagged, or the bag rips, or similar things. That shouldn't matter, but they don't care.

[Craighead]

and I constantly see private sanitation companies driving on the wrong side of the road, picking up half the litter they should, and then speeding off

Anecdotes dont mean much

[atombender]

So they're both bad. My point is that not only do people litter, the normal trash-handling process is also failing.