Let’s face it: New York City is not the cleanest place in the world. It is a city with a population of over 8 million and a city without alleyways. All trash and recycling is piled in black, blue, or clear bags or tied with string and stacked along the curbs of the streets, waste collectors creeping along day and night to make room for the next batch. The consequences of this and population density (in Manhattan for example, there…