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Others joined them by heaving a number of trash bags, all in apparent effort to set up roadblocks.

The airport has also cut in half the number of trash pickups each month, helped in small part by the Silver Dragon Cafe, a new restaurant tenant that uses compostable food containers.

The authority said the number of trash bags hauled out by workers had dropped by 50 percent and 67 percent at these locations, with no noticeable increase in trash on platforms or on the tracks.

The plan would also allow the city to reduce property taxes; to make up for this revenue, the city would charge households a fee based on the number of trash bags they put on the curb or the size of their trash cans.

At the two stations that have been without trash bins since last fall — the Eighth Street and Broadway station in Greenwich Village and the Flushing-Main Street station in Queens — the number of trash bags hauled out by workers has decreased by 50 percent and 67 percent, the authority said.

While the problem gets worse, the number of trash pickers will likely grow.

Another controversial issue is the large number of trashed or abandoned bikes created by bikesharing companies, with photos of "bikesharing graveyards" becoming symbolic of the sector's excesses and unsustainable growth.

For example, Venice generated a similar number of trash-pickup requests as Pico-Union, but less than 60% were completed in the central city neighborhood, compared with nearly all requests in the affluent Westside hot spot.

"It has had the largest number of noise, trash and rat complaints in my district".

In late August, the authority announced that it was increasing the number of stations without trash cans to 10.

The station's construction is part of a city plan to reduce the number of trucks carrying trash to other boroughs and New Jersey, city officials said.