I was walking home last night - across town through Central Park. When I came out on East85th St and headed toward Madison Ave I saw what is pictured here. It is an awesome sight - the quantity of trash produced in this town...as I walked block after block each one looked basically the same as this. What really struck me here though - is that it was more than 2/3rds recycling! A round of applause for NYC and New Yorkers!
While it is likely that there is only one recycling pick up per week, and there are probably two or more garbage pickups I was still impressed. Block after block every pile - large or small - was more than 2/3rds recycling. The clear bags and blue bags are recyclable plastic, metal and glass - paper, magazines and boxes are stacked and tied separately. Only the black bags are 'trash'. It's quite a beautiful sight really.
In this picture there is so much recycling you can't even see the black trash bags - which are all the way to the left and partially hidden by the cut-off car. The first picture and this one are of the same piles - the middle picture is a different/smaller building's pile.
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