This, my friends, is how government really works.
If you live in a city or a suburb you likely use a garbage bin to dispose of your household waste. It makes sense, right? A container to keep the vermin, raccoons, dogs, and flies away from your trash as it waits to be picked up by the garbage man.
New York is one of the few cities to forego the obvious solution to its own rat problem. Instead, the city has hired a “Rat Czar” with a six-figure salary.
Mayor Adams introduced a radical new technology called a trash bin that buildings will be required to use. It’s the next phase of NYC’s Trash Revolution
NYC is making progress! pic.twitter.com/h7EvvL3OvI
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But Mayor Adams had a bigger ambition: he asked McKinsey, the huge consulting firm, to explore a radical idea: trash bins. He paid them $4 million to look into the issue.
