[bmicraft]

Many cities have a regular bin-sized contraption where you throw you stuff in and it gets compacted into a big underground container that is part of the sidewalk. They then either get lifted and emptied of sucked empty by a garbage truck.

The sidewalks are plenty wide for that, nyc doesn't even come close to how narrow some european cities without such problems are.

[mnutt]

Are you referring to some sort of underground hatch that doesn’t take up any space on the sidewalk at all? That’d be very cool, just probably difficult to retrofit the whole city with.

[em500]

They do take up some space on the sidewalk, but less than a non-underground version. Here's what they look like: https://www.core77.com/posts/102208/Amsterdams-Smart-System-...

[nibbleshifter]

The ones I've seen in Barcelona take up a fairly small amount of space. They do occupy some, but not much.

Seems to work really well tbh.

[TheCapeGreek]

I've heard about this in the Netherlands I think, but don' think it's very common.