• Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    before trash bags were invented, only about 60 years ago, everything was just put directly into metal cans. must have been really loud.

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      4 months ago

      We went from bins to no bins and now back to bins. Not sure when NYC originally quit using metal trash cans, but that was a thing back in the day. Where I lived we used metal bins until the late ‘80s and then had to use municipal containers in the ‘90s.