 The new bins, equipped with a secure latching lid, have been touted as affordable, durable, and a key part of the city's trash revolution. Of course, social media users immediately sprang into action, joking that the city's acting like they just cured cancer by asking people to put trash in trash cans. And how adorable it is that New York City is finally coming around to putting their trash in cans. Is this really a thing? I don't know. Well, I mean, if you think about it, you walk around New York and people, they just throw those bags out on the street, right? So I guess the idea