Sal Delancey St, Lower East Side
Twenty-two years on this block. Never missed a Tuesday. Now there's no Tuesday.
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The curb stays empty
A Trashy drives to your pickup spot, holds while you load, and leaves. Nothing goes out the night before and nothing waits for a truck.
Every Trashy starts as a car
An electric sedan lifts apart. The body shell rises away with its wheel arches empty, and so does the Trashy body that comes down to replace it, because the wheels belong to the skateboard chassis and never leave it. The Trashy settles onto that chassis and drives out of frame.
Anyone with an address can call
Person
A super at 10 p.m. A restaurant about to close. A contractor finishing a job site on a Saturday.
Schedule
Nightly, weekly, whatever the building runs on. Set once, then nobody thinks about it again.
Sensor
The trash room hits full and calls on its own. The first anyone hears about it is Trashy showing up.
It pulls up and waits
Trashy stops where a delivery van legally could, including a brief double park with its lights on. It holds while you load. If it cannot stop, it circles the block and sends a new time.
It holds while you load
A Trashy stands at the curb. Its two light strips change from the white it runs with to the blue it holds with, and then one half of its flat lid lifts on the centre hinge and stands open, ready to be loaded.
One gesture
Open the lid
It splits down the middle, so it opens from whichever side you are standing on.
Load
You carry it as far as the kerb and no further. The whole top is open, so the bag goes straight in.
Tap done
No forms, no signature, no standing on the sidewalk waiting for a truck.
It’s gone
Nothing sits on the curb. No overnight pile. No 5 a.m. haul.
Every run records itself. Weight, a photo of the sealed load and a time, in the account before it reaches the corner.
Rocco Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Took the whole playground in ten minutes. Didn't even tip a bin over on the way out.
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Walter Midtown
Nothing on the curb. Nothing. What am I supposed to do, eat bread?
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Roy Lake Tahoe
Came down the mountain for a kitchen remodel. Got there at nine. It was already gone and nothing had eaten it.
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Meet the Trashys
Trashy
Everyday pickup, built on a production electric skateboard. Bags, boxes and bins, one address at a time.
Big Trashy
The same vehicle, scaled up. An open bed and a lift gate, for the loads that were never going to fit in a bag.
The road ahead
Three phases, named so you can hold us to them. We are before the first one.
- 1
Trashy, supervised
Remote handlers, one person to ten units.
- 2
Trashy on its own
Night runs, no one on board.
- 3
Trashy and the drop, automated
No person loads.
We open neighborhoods in the order people ask
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