No joke wasted on New York City mayor’s garbage ‘revolution’

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Welcome to the 21st century, New York City. Or more like the 20th century.

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Eric Adams, the Big Apple’s mayor, was thoroughly trashed on social media Monday after dramatically unveiling the city’s garbage “revolution” — a flip-top receptacle, soon to be required for all small residential buildings across the metropolis.

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“This is all we’ve bin waiting for,” said one reply on X after Adams lifted the lid on the announcement.

“Out of curiosity what did NYC put the trash in before they discovered the existence of garbage bins in the year of our lord 2024,” another post said.

Added The Bulwark culture editor Sonny Bunch: “New York learning about trash cans in 2024 is an insane flex.”

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The announcement was the latest move by Adams to crack down on the city’s “rat-magnet, garbage juice-leaking” piles of black plastic garbage bags, according to the New York Post, which is a “rarity elsewhere in the U.S.”

After wheeling out a bin and tossing a bag of trash into it as Jay-Z’s Empire State of Mind blared in the background, the mayor at least seemed to recognize how odd the announcement was to non-New Yorkers.

“Many people thought it was impossible that these babies here, the bins, were going to be part of our trash revolution,” Adams said, according to the Post.

“We are only catching up to what other municipalities around the globe are currently doing.”

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Adams, according to the Post, said structures with one to nine residential units will have to put their trash into any container starting Nov. 12 before paying for and using the $50 US “NYC Bin” by next summer.

The news even made its way across the pond with some Brits laying waste online to the self-described “greatest city in the world.”

“In my head, America is a land of advanced technology,” a social-media user posted, according to The Independent. “In reality, they need press conferences to explain bins.”

“Wheelie bins have finally made it across the Atlantic,” added another. “A proud moment for our deprived American friends.”

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