Someone roams the south end/Roxbury on Sundays looking for trash that's been placed out. Every freaking week this happens. Trash pickup for the area is Monday morning (and Thursdays).
There's plenty of things that need attention in the area, but a pile of trash left out for pickup isn't high on the list.
isn't, but a mountain is. It's not the cities responsibility to deal with this and remove it. If the guy has that much to throw out, he needs to do what normal people do and rent a dumpster.
ISD needs to come down hard and fine the landlord and tenant here.
If it's the designated trash day, then there's no violation. Boston allows people to put out pretty much any amount of furniture, clothing, etc. as long as it isn't totally unfeasible that it came from a residence (like, I think they would mark a pile of 300 identical chairs or something as not residential waste).
It's ridiculous that Boston allows people to put perfectly usable huge items of furniture and clothing in the trash instead of making people put on their grown-up pants and call a donation place. I don't want my tax dollars going toward disposing of huge pieces of furniture so that people can be wasteful and lazy. (Especially considering that we use tax dollars to provide new furniture for a number of housing programs and so forth when there isn't always enough at thrift stores and things because people throw away perfectly usable things.)
When I realized I didn't want anything from my old apt I looked at the city website and learned that almost everything was perfectly acceptable to put out for trash. It looks awful and takes up a lot of sidewalk space, but why shouldn't I if the city explicitly says I am allowed? I suppose this is what I pay the high rent for!
And your neighbors' rents are just as high and I'm sure they think you kind of suck as a neighbor for trashing the sidewalk everyone needs to use. No class.
I followed the website guidelines And no, I don't consider myself classy really but I didn't try to ruffle feathers, put it all out in the morning, workers took it away. My apologies for that, I guess?
Good thing, since they're among the things you're not supposed to put out. Also: TV sets (although you can schedule a pickup for these) and, for some reason, bricks. Old patio chairs are, however, OK!
Bricks aren't allowed since they're considered construction materials. Any contractor doing work in a building has to dispose of the materials privately for whatever reason.
While these big piles of trash are a problem for the neighborhood, where are those who are moving supposed to put their garbage if their building doesn't have a dumpster because they use municipal trash services?
Anybody who whines about this is a slice of white wonder bread. This is a classic time honored city tradition. I once furnished a whole studio apartment, minus futon, with perfectly decent stuff people had left out on the curb. Some people make a nice piece of $ picking this stuff up, fixing it if it needs fixing, and re-selling.
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Someone roams the south end/Roxbury on Sundays looking for trash that's been placed out. Every freaking week this happens. Trash pickup for the area is Monday morning (and Thursdays).
There's plenty of things that need attention in the area, but a pile of trash left out for pickup isn't high on the list.
small pile of trash
isn't, but a mountain is. It's not the cities responsibility to deal with this and remove it. If the guy has that much to throw out, he needs to do what normal people do and rent a dumpster.
ISD needs to come down hard and fine the landlord and tenant here.
Not a code violation, unfortunately
If it's the designated trash day, then there's no violation. Boston allows people to put out pretty much any amount of furniture, clothing, etc. as long as it isn't totally unfeasible that it came from a residence (like, I think they would mark a pile of 300 identical chairs or something as not residential waste).
It's ridiculous that Boston allows people to put perfectly usable huge items of furniture and clothing in the trash instead of making people put on their grown-up pants and call a donation place. I don't want my tax dollars going toward disposing of huge pieces of furniture so that people can be wasteful and lazy. (Especially considering that we use tax dollars to provide new furniture for a number of housing programs and so forth when there isn't always enough at thrift stores and things because people throw away perfectly usable things.)
Well said
When I realized I didn't want anything from my old apt I looked at the city website and learned that almost everything was perfectly acceptable to put out for trash. It looks awful and takes up a lot of sidewalk space, but why shouldn't I if the city explicitly says I am allowed? I suppose this is what I pay the high rent for!
Just how high is your rent?
And your neighbors' rents are just as high and I'm sure they think you kind of suck as a neighbor for trashing the sidewalk everyone needs to use. No class.
And they have the same rights
I followed the website guidelines And no, I don't consider myself classy really but I didn't try to ruffle feathers, put it all out in the morning, workers took it away. My apologies for that, I guess?
So you didn't put out a toilet?
Good thing, since they're among the things you're not supposed to put out. Also: TV sets (although you can schedule a pickup for these) and, for some reason, bricks. Old patio chairs are, however, OK!
bricks
Bricks aren't allowed since they're considered construction materials. Any contractor doing work in a building has to dispose of the materials privately for whatever reason.
Wrong
Trash is picked up on Tuesdays and Fridays in this area. They should be ticketed.
Realistically
While these big piles of trash are a problem for the neighborhood, where are those who are moving supposed to put their garbage if their building doesn't have a dumpster because they use municipal trash services?
Craig's List?
NMJWAC
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Bagster
Yeah, people would bitch about a couple of them on the sidewalk, but you can get them picked up quite quickly.
Said it above
If you have THAT much trash, almost anywhere else you rent a dumpster. They're not that expensive.
Plus, you can even plop it right outside the front door. Just need to alert city hall and get the proper no parking signage.
OMG please
Anybody who whines about this is a slice of white wonder bread. This is a classic time honored city tradition. I once furnished a whole studio apartment, minus futon, with perfectly decent stuff people had left out on the curb. Some people make a nice piece of $ picking this stuff up, fixing it if it needs fixing, and re-selling.
PLEASE stop trying to turn us into Disneyworld.
you're
the reason buildings get bedbugs
Please
You think I didn't check for bedbugs? If there were any question, I wouldn't take it. And I've NEVER had bedbugs.
Pretty sure
thats Allston...
Evening update
Even messier.