“Is there a reason these people can’t clean up their mess?”
Renters wont buy solid garbage cans with lids. Landlords wont supply them because renters — especially Section 8—destroy or steal them.
Renters put out their trash in cardboard boxes & open bags. It spills.
People eat & drink while walking past, then toss their refuse in general direction of a pile.
Wind blows it down the street.
People say, “It ain’t my garbage, I put mine in a box.”
Garbage men wont pick up loose trash, or trash placed in open boxes & bags likely to break & spill. Only trash in hard receptacles.
City councils then vote for “automated” trash pickup, which requires a tax increase to fund mafia cronies in the waste management industry.
Special wheeled cans with attached lids are then distributed, along with slow-moving automated trucks that lift & empty the cans.
Renters then tear up the taxpayer-funded cans, and the cycle continues.
When I lived in the innercity, our civic group pushed for landlords to pay for lidded cans, & dumpsters for larger complexes. We wanted the cost paid by tenants thru refundable rent deposits. No charge if can returned to landlord intact.
Landlords fought back & won. Too hard to enforce, they said.
We got the automated system instead, & the mess continued.
It comes down to self respect & personal responsibility.
Government funding obliterates that.
Thank you. What a nightmare!