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The humble garbage run is getting a high-tech overhaul. From robot trash haulers that arrive on demand to electric trucks designed to silence the morning clatter of diesel engines, waste collection is ...

A new crop of high-tech trash containers began landing on streets in upper Manhattan this month, the latest step in the sanitation department’s years-long effort to banish piles of trash bags from ...

Three mornings a week, a fleet of brand-new, $500,000 trucks descends on Harlem to hoist a thousand massive trash bins into the air. Sanitation worker Anthony Martin stood outside one of the trucks on ...