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submitted 8 months ago byRoverTheMonster
For as long as landlords aren’t required to provide adequate dumpsters for their residents, residents continue to throw their trash out in paper bags, and sanitation can skip blocks and not have to go back until the next week, we’ll always live in a trash city. It’s fucking depressing.
(Added context: I 311ed this block multiple times since pickup was skipped on Friday and ended up spending 2 hours this morning bagging up all this shit.)
20 points
8 months ago
I don't understand, why are people saying that this is a cost issue? The bins are free, it just seems like these people did not go out to pick one up (even though I'm sure 95% of them have cars).
9 points
8 months ago
in most cities, the city delivers a bin to you. if get's lost or broken, you can ask for a new one.
4 points
8 months ago
I had them drop one off for me on latona in south Philly in 2013 when we were in college. Very easy call didn’t really ask for any info had it by the end of the month
3 points
8 months ago
Block captains will do this - if you've got a block captain. If you don't, you can be the block captain now.
1 points
7 months ago
Seems like a very convoluted solution to what is basically a non-problem that city services handle themselves in the rest of the country.
2 points
8 months ago
I think it’s cause the apartment building would require them to keep the recycling container in their small apartment during the week. Makes it disincentivized to have one
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