An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding

Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by dullgiulio on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:06PM (#14713969)

I think the free service was born out of despair for people consistently leaving big trash on the roadside. While I understand you as I don't produce big trash myself, I guess it's still better to just pay a little more and get rid of the bigger problems having trash on the roadside would bring.

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by JumpCrisscross on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:17PM (#14714050)

New York City fines people $100 to $400 for using improper receptacles, leaving receptacles uncovered, putting trash in front of others' buildings and/or leaving loose rubbish lying about [1]. Note that these can accumulate, e.g. if you put loose trash in front of someone else's building in an improper receptacle, that could be $300 to $1,000 of fines.

Those fines pay for enforcement. They also pay for picking up garbage dumped by unknown persons. This model shifts the burden from everyone to just the offenders. I find it preferable to small households subsidising big ones.

[1] http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/downloads/pdf/about/laws/DSN...

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Re:An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Serie... by dullgiulio on Friday July 07, 2017 @02:25AM (#14716484)

How do you demonstrate that the fridge left on the side of a public road, even if close to someone's home, actually belonged to someone? The examples that you mention are even harder to enforce. Cameras?

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