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MTA plan would trash the garbage cans

Commuters exit the Wall Street subway station. (Aug.

Photo credit: AP | Commuters exit the Wall Street subway station. (Aug. 29, 2011)

To cut down on litter on subway platforms, the MTA may trash garbage cans altogether.

The cash-strapped agency may remove all the cans from some platforms if everything goes well with a test under way at two stations.

The MTA is banking on riders taking their trash with them, or simply bringing less on trains.

If the pilot program, which began two weeks ago at the 8th Street N...

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