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Underground bins are a potential solution. This is what The Netherlands use: https://youtu.be/0JtoSafhvLM

We use these all over the city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhbhvdvTWUg

Uneducated view from a single video, but this seems incredibly inefficient? How many of these have to be processed on a weekly basis? I'd expect for such a size of vessel, the truck is in and out in < 15 seconds.

There are a lot of them but they also hold a lot of trash. The big ones can hold up to 12m3 while a rolling container holds 770L or around 12 35L bags. [1]

Some are emptied on a schedule while others send a signal when they are full. It would also take a similar amount of time to pickup a long street full of rolling steel containers holding around the same amount of trash.

At ~USD 1.70 for one 35L bag people also recycle a lot.

[1] https://www.zh.ch/content/dam/zhweb/bilder-dokumente/themen/...

They also work well for dumping used glass bottles etc. since they reduce the noise you hear when the class breaks inside

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