unattended room service trays tell you many things.
#1 the property doesn't "care"
#2 safety issue - if they go 12 hours without roaming the halls, how safe are you and the stuff in your room?
#3 use your imagination
They should make a sweep of the halls for trays around midnight. That ought to get nearly everything. Then one final sweep at 4 or 5am, just before the breakfast rush. And breakfast stuff should be gone before lunch, needless to say.
Agreed too, with all the extra charges for room service, on top of already high food prices, the least they could do is to clean up the mess in a timely fashion.
You could always put the stuff in the elevator and then send it to the lobby, I suppose.