DSNY New York City Recycling Collection

Watch for the first time in seven years as New York’s Strongest tackle recycling routes in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
0:00 We start off with a Mack LR Heil Formula 4060 Split Body rear loader on the bottles run in Fort Greene.
3:11 Features a Mack LEU Heil 5000 on paper duty in the Upper East Side, steadily working through the 70s between Fifth and Lexington Avenues.
In both areas, trash is collected three times a week, with recycling once. DSNY is a truly special and unique operation, perhaps best evidenced by the fact that Mack, Heil, McNeilus, and now Labrie build such highly customized trucks for them, complete with short bodies to park in garages, an unmistakable light bar, exhaust diffuser, spot mirrors, and much more.
My appreciation and compliments to both crews featured.
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[@ballzgotw8672]

Hey look that’s me! Good job. Thnx for being respectful. Appreciate what you do

[@user-es7ks5lg2b]

The NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) New York’s Strongest always does an unbelievable job. No questions asked. I love it. Nicely Done! Don’t Litter and keep New York City clean. 💯💪👍😊

[@jayharper1894]

Liked straight away!! 🇬🇧🙏 love your DSNY film buddy

[@kevinmcnamara477]

Why oh why do I find this fascinating????

[@georgewuzheer]

8 hr days, impossible to get fired, physical activity but not completely exhasting, give me a partner like at 3:24 and I'm moving. The newspaper bundles are interesting, crazy to think 30 years ago that was the internet. In Portland one of the old guys said they lost a ton or revenue once ONP died off, cardboard is the closest commodity today but people refuse to flatten/cut/bundle. Plus bums use the boxes as toilets, a recycle route nowadays is like a reverse Easter egg hunt, try and avoid the chocolate suprise.

[@ct_refuse]

The classic bottles run

[@snoopysrc]

Awesome video

[@nokia3750]

Awesome catch 💯💯💯

[@garbagetrucksofsanmarcosca]

Awesome video.

[@RecologyChaser]

Nice video! Probably the first video I've ever seen of DSNY doing Recycle! Nice catch

[@edwardleecaliforniausa]

Good morning brother nice catch glad to see the litter bottle cans Recycling and these crew drivers shifting really good

[@trashmonster26]

No shifting needed! DSNY runs all automatic transmissions 🇺🇸

[@ryanhutchinson9657]

@@trashmonster26 nice job on your video

[@edwardleecaliforniausa]

@@trashmonster26 yupppp and that's where it captured through the day 🇺🇲

[@IWS15]

With most modern recycling mrf’s begging people to not bag their recycling to go tangling up the equipment, it makes me wonder if the places that take the cities recycling has different technology to deal with nearly 100% bagged product.

[@trashmonster26]

I wonder about that too. At least SIMS (the NYC mrf) has the advantage of two commodity streams, so an overall cleaner product might make it worth the extra cost of processing bags. But then much of Boston’s recycling is also bagged, and they have single stream collection. Makes you do a big think 🤔

[@trashyraccoon2615]

It’s all headed for the landfill, shhhhh don’t tell the taxpayer lol

[@melaniekeen3611]

Cheaper to dispose of recycling at the landfill. 37 a ton for trash vs 93 per ton for recycling

[@auricom8472]

Wow they take anything under the sun, anything plastic, paper, metal, or glass its taken v

[@hunterdawg89]

6:29 wow a DSNY crew actually using the ejector panel to pack the load. seems most just leave it at the cab which I find odd.

[@trashmonster26]

No dude they do that all the time they break tailgate locks and crack sweep blades it’s actually a massive problem

[@matthewa.4095]

Always set the blade

[@Janotes]

@@matthewa.4095 yeah so you can put 15 tons on.

[@plumbingstuffinoregon2471]

Yeah that's how you break tailgate locks and spill trash all over the street.

[@staintedcards]

damn here i thought CA had alot of traffic

[@25mfd]

with a population of 8 million it ain't surprising

[@hope8612]

All recycling is thrown together bare glass electronics wood paper everything that is recycled

[@gdsteven7566]

here in Europe we seperate it differently we put each waste in the proper bin because this helps seperating and no need huge costly sorting in factories they should take our example

[@curtiswatling2709]

New yorkein accent

[@bmw803]

What an inneficient, messy way to collect recycling. How about NYC administrators check out what goes on in Amsterdam and how it's collected there.

[@stevcass1822]

new yorks slowest