MTA Trashes Wordy Old Garbage Cans

The old look, left (martinstelbring's flickr), and the new look, right (bitchcakesny's flickr).

The MTA's constant battle with signage has claimed another victim. "Can It For A Greener Planet" trash cans, we hardly knew ye. Since February the MTA has slowly been rolling out a new, less wordy, garbage can decal that instead just says "Litter Stops Here." By the end of the year there should be 5,000 of the new cans in the system, according to the Times. The better to fill the garbage train!

The new decals come as the MTA has been doing a lot of toying with its signage, from the new service announcements to its overall graphics redesign. And honestly? We're kind of digging the simplified look (though we don't want to go digging in them). Not only is it more universally understandable, we like that now there are picto-men and picto-women throwing out their refuse.

No word yet on how much this totally necessary change is costing the MTA.

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By Garth Johnston in News on April 18, 2011 6:36 PM

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Emmily_Litella

We take many things for granted in this country and complain about nonesense. In Russia in 2000 there were zero waste receptacles in the metro, and the place was totally clean. Through all the trauma of the 1990s in that country, the people maintained their dignity and their trash-what little of it there was-until exiting the system. Here every lowlife parasite expects a paid employee to clean up after them.

silver

In DC, the metro got rid of all their trashcans because of "terrorism". The place didn't look like a dump magically. Nothing dumped in the corners on the platforms.

MermaidFornicator

when i was in london i was surprised that the underground didn't have trash cans but they didn't throw their garbage on the tracks or platforms the way the animals do here.

Fofofofofo

Yeah and they take pride in "queueing" up properly. I make it to the front of line at Duane Reade and some old lady always tries to cut in front of me.

ReligiousWacko

New signs will not make a difference without attitude change by some of the animals that use the subway system.

Peanut_Butter

Anytime now there will be a movement to rid the dual-gender symbols for a gender-neutral one.

mmheidelberger

The resident rats won't notice the label change...

souper_crackers

I see the new decals have no mention of the "recycling" that the MTA said they were doing. At least they're giving up the pretense, but I'd just as soon they saved their money.

colonelcasey

Despite it being dropped, the MTA still recycles a good chunk of the trash.

whitecastlerock

Fuck the MTA

Spirit of 76

Good intentions, but when all is said and done, powerless and futile. It comes down to passengers choosing to use the trashcans, and the sad fact is that an awful lot of people just don't give a rattus' derriere.

jaycjay

"By the end of the year there should be 5,000 of the new cans in the system, according to the Times."

No, according to the Times they're not new cans. Just new decals on the same cans.

I can't imagine this will cost much money at all. The cans are painted regularly, and when they are painted they need a new decal. The only change is now there are two decals instead of one. If it's going to take a year to get them all replaced, that probably means that the cans normally get repainted once a year so that's really only added expense.

neilbmad

unless you consider the money spent "designing" the decals...

inoyourider21

ANY money is too much in these circumstances.

nicemarmot

"Litter stops here" until it's completely full and no one comes to empty it, and then litter will once again stop all over the platform and the tracks.

ishtar_79

Litter will stop on the platform and tracks regardless.

inoyourider21

Another big BS waste of money.
Screw you Jay Walder, the new boss is the as the old one.
After rate hikes and service cuts, BS like this is a big middle finger to us riders.