It's the Brian Lera show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone.

Now let's get to a hyper-local issue

affecting some of our most under-appreciated New Yorkers,

our city's supers.

They have a major gripe that hasn't been reported much but now it has by

WNYC and Gothamist. Many of us are not breaking down our cardboard boxes in this

age of so much delivery with the influx of e-commerce in our lives

cardboard boxes are piling up in our buildings trash rooms this obviously is for

those of you who live in apartment buildings and

surprise surprise it's not supposed to be the super's job to break them down and

tie them up or at least to break them all down.

More broadly, sorting through trash in New York City

can be more complicated than you might expect.

There's paper recycling, metal and glass, composting, new trash takeout times, you know about many of these things, specific

bins, etc, etc.

But we're going to talk about the supers and we're going to talk about the cardboard. Let's help our supers keep our buildings clean and get all these

rules straightened out and just plain old etiquette straightened out.

Joining us now is Liam Quigley, reporter covering parks and sanitation for WNYC and

Gothamist.

Hey Liam, welcome to the show.

Hi, good morning, Brian.

And first of all, for people who don't know you yet and know your beat, what's the breath of what you're

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