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Photo: In Lieu Of Garbage Can, Put Garbage Here


by on Mar 7th, 2013

GARBAGE GAZETTE: I’m sorry, but people are dopes. I certainly don’t understand the point of these little garbage can prisons, but I also don’t understand why anyone, upon seeing one without a garbage can in it, would think it’s a fine place to put your garbage.

Maybe it’s the latest fad: a little zoo where we can stand outside the garbage beast’s cage and point and gawk and take photos (I did) and then move on to the three-toed sloth’s cage or something. I don’t know.

Let’s make some new rules, folks.

  1. One, don’t throw your trash on the ground.
  2. Two, if a garbage can is already full, don’t throw your trash in it. No, that little cellophane wrapper that has negative weight is not somehow going to stay delicately balanced on the can until the Sanitation Department comes to empty it, so stop trying and put it in your pocket.
  3. Just because there is a garbage can prison (sans can), an empty newspaper bin, an unguarded decorative planter, or similar vessel on a sidewalk, it does not mean you have free license to toss trash in it. If you do, you’re just a freakin’ animal and deserve to be put in your own little garbage can prison zoo.

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  • nolastname

    And on that note, when will sanitation do something about the over full trash receptacles by homeowners? “Some” people do not bag their garbage instead just throwing little bags into a unlined trash can. “Some” people throw 10 little red shopping bags to the curb. This (especially with recyclables) is what has Sheepshead Bay looking like a pig pen. When a sanitation truck picks up unbound newspapers and circulars they go flying all over the avenues.
    Why sanitation is not giving fines for improper disposal of garbage is beyond me. This area is a gold mine.

    Now if the cans that belong inside the cage is metal I would look under the Coney Island Avenue bridge. There’s a whole community under there.

    • BrooklynBus

      And since when has it been the law that garbage cans must be lined? I thought you had a choice, putting garbage in a can usually in plastic bags except for large objects, or using a plastic trash bag. You were never required to line your garbage can, nor should you be.

      You are required, however to cover the cans, but cans and lids are often damaged or lost because Sanitation never returns the cans upright, but just throws them on the street for you to either pick up or hunt for them down the block where ever they have rolled away to.

      • nolastname

        I did not say it was a law. Sense of responsibility,… maybe, pride in having a cleaner neighborhood,…..eh, common sense,…. I crack myself up sometimes.
        So after excuses what is left? Let’s live like pigs.

        • nolastname

          Heck, I even remember when people would bring their trash in the yard if it was not going to be picked up because of an upcoming storm.
          Putting garbage to the curb was only done the evening before pick-up day, the cans were not left to the curb 24/7.

          • BrooklynBus

            You are still not allowed to put out your garbage before 5PM on the day of collection or you are subject to a fine. (Does not apply to bulk Hurricane Sandy pick-ups for good reason.)

            I don’t see how lining your garbage can with a trash bag contributes to a cleaner neighborhood. As long as Sanitation doesn’t dump your garbage all over the street and not pick it up, it won’t matter.

            Regarding your assertion that people care less today about how clean their neighborhood is, I think that depends on each individual block and who frequents that block and if it is commercial or residential. That also makes a difference.

          • nolastname

            I didn’t say people were allowed to put the garbage out before 5p.m….just making a point that people honored that regulation.

            Sanitation has been more than lenient……the inspectors used to rip bags open and give a descriptive summons. Do you see how people are bagging their garbage? Come take a walk from Nostrand Avenue to East 16Street. Look at the curbside garbage, look at the bags of dog shit, look up and down the side streets.

            It’s a fucking pig stye. Now I can’t go on with you about who is to blame. We disagree and that’s Okay. I know what and who I clean up after. Sheepshead Bay/ and the Gravesend border look like a slum.
            Where do you live that it is so different? Midwood or Manhattan Beach?

  • BrooklynBus

    I see you don’t ask the questions what happened to the basket or how it has been missing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/edward.jaworski.7 Edward Jaworski

    At a Community Board 15 meeting I suggested the need for a comprehensive plan to clean up long -time trash problems– like under the B/Q subway overpasses and Ave. U from Coney Island Ave. to Stuart St. People concerned with garbage problems in the communhity should come to the next CB15 meeting on Tues., March 19, 7pm, Kingsboro CC, mention other garbage problem issues, and ask about such a plan. These sanitation issues will continue without pressure for long-range solutions.

    • nolastname

      Lew drops in here often. This is not a new issue. I have been to meetings, I will go again. Hope it’s not a waste of time.

  • Nyckat

    I get pretty upset having to walk for blocks swinging dog waste bags because I can’t find a trash can to toss them in!! I really understand why I walk past mound after mound of doggy piles that people refuse to pick up..because they don’t want to carry it 10 blocks home to throw it away!! Come what’s wrong with putting trash cans on street corners, and emptying them on a regular basis

    • nolastname

      On that note..I’d like to see poop cans outside apartments/condos that allow dogs as pets for tenants . NO ONE will carry dog poop back into an elevator and up up to their apartment to dispose of.

      • nyckat

        I know, I get sick of the dirty looks I get walking along Brighton toward Manhattan Beach with my little green sack just looking for an illusive can – it is just too tempting to sometimes toss it into the storm drains to avoid the nasty looks- sometimes I want to yell back would you rather step those Jimmy Choo heels into a nice warm pile- or watch me carry a green bag?! And they look straight at that green bag- they KNOW whats in it!!

    • guest

      In an example of real perverse logic, it has been suggested that garbage cans be REMOVED to keep the neighborhood clean!