Sure, much of Midtown doesn't have street trash pickup because skyscrapers have alternative garbage disposal infrastructure. The fact that 20% of streets don't produce trash doesn't alter the fact that the remaining 80% of streets have largely uniform trash distribution. There's no stretches of road where garbage trucks are spending significantly more time than others.

The fact that it's time, not distance, that matters makes matters event worse: garbage trucks will spend a brief period of time on a major thoroughfare to get to their trash pickup zone, but then spend hours and and hours working through block and after block of residential and low density (for NYC) neighborhoods with no overlap between truck routes. There are no roads where you can deploy power lines that will charge garbage trucks for any significant stretch of time. The only place where garbage trucks do spend long stretches of time is the depot: and you just need normal EV charges there. The low-density, distributed nature of garbage pickup fundamentally is at odds with overhead lines.

> The fact that 20% of streets don't produce trash doesn't alter the fact that the remaining 80% of streets have largely uniform trash distribution.

What makes you say it's uniform? Skyscapers, businesses, and others not using public trash services aren't clustered on one street; you find them all over town. The number of stops per street can vary considerably.

Again, skyscrapers pretty much always use garbage chutes and consolidate their trash. It gets sent to the he dump multiple times per day, not part of the street trash pickup schedule. You seem to be under the impression that the trash distribution is like this sequence:

1, 1, 9, 1, 2, 0, 8, 1, 9

In reality it's like this:

1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1

There's a few gaps where there's little trash to pick up. But there's no hot spots where there's massive amounts of garbage bags to pick up off the street.