Down In The Dumps
On a Monday walk from Chez Boulevardier to downtown, Your Boulevardier encountered an illegal dumpsite on Norbridge Avenue, just west of Nunes Avenue. Returning to the scene yesterday, the detritus was still there. (Not that it would get up and remove itself.) Your Boulevardier apologizes for the poor quality of the photo.
Your Boulevardier and Mon Petit Chou, who was making a rare-but-welcome weekday visit, discussed the circumstances that could lead to a person dumping two couches, a bed, a pallet, and other miscellaneous refuse on a public street. Certainly, a trip to the dump can be costly, but the Castro Valley Sanitary District offers a free bulky pickup once a year. Perhaps timing and finances were the issue: the dumper had been evicted from his home and had nowhere to take the stuff, and no money to deal with the problem. Chances are the truth will never be known, in this particular case.
Regardless of the circumstances, dumping on a public street is a selfish, wasteful, uncivilized way to deal with refuse. Clearly the perpetrator knew this, because he dumped his junk in a dark, untrafficked stretch of road with no residences on either side.
Labels: crime, CVSan, environment, litter, pollution, trash, vandalism
posted by Your Boulevardier @ 7:55 AM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Out here in the country the problem is even worse. People dump their trash in orchards, along country roads, and toss their trash out out the windows with abandon. I clean up trash in front of my property once a week. But at the back property line people have even dumped half a car next to the irrigation ditch. The expense to remove this stuff is costly. The cost of a trip to the dumps here? $10.
We take advantage of the yearly bulk pick up here in CV. I've seen the problem on the less traveled streets and out in the country. It's also why Good Will no longer has donation trucks around here anymore.
Makes you wonder what their houses and yards look like, doesn't it?
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