As people stay at home, they are putting out more trash, from pizza boxes to cardboard delivery boxes. That's putting a big strain on residential garbage collectors.
A man wearing a protective mask looks at piled-up trash in New York City on April 24. Cities are struggling with collection as the volume of residential garbage surges during the stay-at-home era.A man wearing a protective mask looks at piled-up trash in New York City on April 24. Cities are struggling with collection as the volume of residential garbage surges during the stay-at-home era.
Tart's trash truck is equipped with a robot arm to lift the cans, but he can't always keep a healthy distance from the garbage. He worries some of the extra trash he's handling might carry traces of the coronavirus. While residential trash bins are overflowing, dumpsters sit empty outside vacant office buildings and hotels. But the commercial trucks that ordinarily empty those dumpsters are not easily reassigned to residential neighborhoods.
"We have seen a whole lot of neighbors organize themselves to actually take collections to these centers," Garbark said."Everyone has to work together, because we can't get through this alone." "They don't realize how much they need us until something happens where their trash doesn't get picked up," said Miller, the Ohio trash collector."They want to put it out in the morning. And when they come home in the afternoon, they want it to be gone. That's what I want when I put my trash out."
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