{"id":6985,"date":"2012-02-20T12:16:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6985"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:16:14","slug":"in_a_world_with_no_trash_trash_just_piles_up_in_a_different_part_of_the_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/02\/in_a_world_with_no_trash_trash_just_piles_up_in_a_different_part_of_the_world.html","title":{"rendered":"In A World With No Trash, Trash Just Piles Up In A Different Part Of The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Except that trash a zero-sum game, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/quick-trash-m-ta-fight-litter-article-1.1025478\">which just means that the bins at street-level will be worse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Subway managers in October announced a bold and seemingly moronic experiment: They would remove the garbage cans from two subway stations to see if that would lead to less litter.<\/p>\n<p>Surprisingly, it has been working &#8212; and the MTA is mulling whether to junk or expand the no-can pilot program.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Once again, our cynicism may have been overblown.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the amount of garbage the MTA hauls from the subway &#8212; 14,000 tons a year &#8212; exploring any option that could reduce the burden is worthwhile. And since it&#8217;s working, the authority should expand the pilot &#8212; not junk it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Except that trash a zero-sum game, which just means that the bins at street-level will be worse: Subway managers in October announced a bold and seemingly moronic experiment: They would remove the garbage cans from two subway stations to see if that would lead to less litter. Surprisingly, it has been working &#8212; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6986,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6985\/revisions\/6986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}