Most New Yorkers don't think too deep about what happens to their trash after leaving it out on the curb for New York City sanitation trucks to pick up. New Yorkers basically set their garbage out and go about their lives. Most people set out the garbage on a certain day during the week before making their weight on the New York City subway train off to work, or file into a NYC taxi. Or New York City metropolitan bus.
Do you live in any borough of New York City and wonder where your trash goals and how it's dealt with after the New York City sanitation trucks pick up your trash? Most people don't have a clue how sanitation of New York City makes money off of residents of the Big Apple.
This video gives an inside glimpse of three days of New York City garbage picked up from the five boroughs, averaging out to potentially or more than 3.2 million pounds.