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Why have garbage trucks at all when you can have a series of tubes to transport garbage?



What is a garbage truck fleet if not a series of tubes?


Well for one the tubes are not something you just dump something on, and if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your garbage in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.


NYC technically already has this in Roosevelt Island.


Just context for international readers: Roosevelt Island has 11,000 residents, or 0.1% of NYC's population. The point stands, just providing context.



Yeah NYC really needs to get rid of the garbage trucks. Or figure out something. Garbage is becoming a problem for the city.


We already have the internet.




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