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How Disney's magical trash tubes ended up in New York City

Grant Tyler and Ryan Bieber
2023-07-27T20:30:42Z
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At Disney World, the Magic Kingdom uses a system of pneumatic tubes to keep trash out of sight for park visitors. While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City.

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