Neighbors,
For years I have been picking up trash at the Beideman Mini Park, O'Farrell and Beideman Streets. My efforts, the work on the Rec & Park gardeners, and perhaps others has kept the little corner quite beautiful. A few weeks ago I discovered that the trash can on the street next to the park had been removed. A "311" operator told me that someone had requested that it be removed because it attracted too much trash. I requested that it be put back. The condition of the mini park has deteriorated. I have never seen so much trash everywhere, because there is no
Nowhere to dispose of it properly. In the past there would be some litter to clean up around the benches, but now, there is paper and bottle trash everywhere - in the bushes and planting beds and stuffed in between the rungs of the bench.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to have a trash bin placed back on the corner? The solution to too much trash is to request that the can be emptied more frequently, not to remove the can.
Noni Richen