When Vota checked his back alley on Saturday, the old cans were gone. Vota actually got his new 32-gallon trash barrel and 48-gallon recycling “SuperCan” early on, but held on to two older cans for excess trash. Although many DC residents are eager to get rid of the old cans, some want to hold on to the smaller trash bins for various purposes, like Petworth resident Wayan Vota. It was only made worse when the stickers started to degrade, becoming unreadable.ĭPW finally stepped up its game last Saturday when it started a “blitz,” to finish the removal job, but even that’s gone haywire. The problem got so bad on some blocks that the hyperactive neighborhood blog Popville took up the cause, publicizing of a block of Shaw where abandoned bins filled the sidewalk on both sides of Fourth Street, Northwest. Neighborhoods wound up with cans piled up in alleyways and street corners, sometimes attracting vermin. They read “Take Me.”īut Gray’s sanitation workers apparently didn’t heed the stickers in time, and come April, many old bins remained uncollected. Starting in March, the Department of Public Works sent out bright yellow stickers to mark the older, smaller trash cans they wished to discard. District officials also figured that many residents would want to keep their old cans, but more people than anticipated wanted new ones. Gray originally aimed to swap everyone’s trash cans by April 1, a goal critics saw as a lofty campaign promise ahead of the April 1 Democratic primary.
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A city government plan to replace residents’ garbage and recycling bins with larger models has gone from a workaday act of municipal upkeep into a series of embarrassments for Mayor Vince Gray’s lame-duck administration. That could be a political metaphor, but this week, it’s an entirely literal statement. The District of Columbia has a trash problem.
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