Here in the Big Apple the owner of the premises is responsible for the sanitary condition of its sidewalk.
Fines can be imposed.
Public trash cans are everywhere. For the most part people use them.
We use to suffer from cigarette litter. For several reasons this has been severely reduced; one of them being the very high price of cigarettes.
The average Joe no longer buys a pack. The bodegas sells cigarettes from the
pack. Good! People smoke less cigarettes.
And BTW smoking is illegal in many public spaces.
