littering

There are no discarded once-frozen coffee drinks sweating rings onto wooden tables; no empty Styrofoam takeout containers littering kitchen counters mere inches away from the trash can.

Besides increased access, some predict that the reopening will help reduce littering and overcrowding.

"It is a fundamental risk. Businesses don't want packaging with their brand name on it to be littering the streets and our oceans," said Mr Opsomer.

In a time when New York Governor Kathy Hochul has ensured that I see cops not just littering my subway stations, but actually littering — throwing their garbage onto the ground, people!

It said the council had partnered with the environmental enforcement agency "to deal with fly-tipping and littering across the borough".