Posted on 05/07/2021 4:57:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sanitation workers collected more than 35 tons of trash while cleaning the closed Echo Park Lake, which a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles parks department said the city is hoping to reopen by the end of the month.
This comes more than a month after the city cleared a large homeless encampment of more than 170 tents from the park amid large protests by activists in the community. The timing of the park’s closure was kept secret by city officials until the last minute.
Once it was closed, city workers began to clean the park, pack and store belongings that were left behind by residents and repair broken streetlights and the grass.
L.A. Sanitation & Environment workers collected and disposed of more than 700 pounds of biological waste. That included about 180 pounds of feces and 564 pounds of urine, according to documents from the agency. That doesn’t include feces and urine from portable or stationary restrooms at the park, according to agency spokeswoman Elena Stern.
Workers also collected 30 pounds of drug paraphernalia, which includes needles. In total, sanitation workers collected and disposed of 300 pounds of hazardous waste, which included gasoline, paint thinner, cooking oil, nail polish remover, and containers with alcohol, rubbing alcohol and kerosene.
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“180 pounds of feces and 564 pounds of urine,”
Using plastic bottles?
“hazardous waste, which included gasoline, paint thinner, cooking oil, nail polish remover, and containers with alcohol, rubbing alcohol and kerosene.”
= methlabs.
Sounds more like heating/cooking and maybe huffing materials.
In general homeless people, even druggies will dump garbage in a bin if one were provided.
Seriously, even if only 50% is put in the trash that still saves a lot of money on the back end cause you only have to clean 1/2 as much crap up
The homeless camp by my shop just burns everything, and of course every few months the whole camp burns up too!
Now it’s a nice, clean space for the lowlifes to trash all over again.
I get the feeling that what they threw away was just Hunter S. Thompson’s personal stash
Camps out in the brush fill up with daily trash. It seems to be beyond most of these people that they can pack things out, as well as in.
Many of these people get tents, tarps, and bedding for free. They just bail on a lot of it when they get rousted. I remember one woman that was making a list of new things she needed, so that a guy could fill a cart at WalMart and take off with it.
Or maybe we could really act like we (the USA) cared and intern these libertarians/reprobates/addicts in cages. Like sheriff Joe used to do. I’ve been through the Mojave. Plenty of room there.
Just think of what it will look like when we clean out the White House.
What was the needle count stoner states are a mecca for such low life’s and the democrats want to make every state one.
What are the odds of your kids growing up normal.
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