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Citizen complaint of the day: Somebody in South Boston is really into cup stacking
By adamg on Sun, 07/29/2018 - 4:44pm
An annoyed citizen files a 311 complaint about these ever growing stacks of coffee cups on West 5th Street next to the overpass over the bypass road.
PLEASE HELP! This pile grows every day. It needs to be cleaned up and we need more garbage cans in the area.
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Some people need to chill out a little
If that bothers you that much. Better than syringes, underwear and condoms.
Definitely
Those three things are eeewwwww gross!
ew?
Only if you're not the first user...
get a garbage bag...
...and pick it up. it would take all of 30 seconds.
It's Art
See the chains? This is a permanent display.
Only answer is that it's the counter balance to the Longfellow Trophys.
I have a hunch
The cup stacker may be making the same point as the person who made the complaint?
Here's something to think about Swirl...
...covered cups. Probably not rinsed out first...been pretty hot and humid lately...
Stacked up because someone is
Stacked up because someone is picking them up.
Maybe some grouch Bostonian
Maybe some grouch Bostonian can knock them down in a fit of rage like those rental bikes
cups
Reminds me of Andy Warhol artwork. Maybe you should leave it alone to see it grow and win an award for great street art.
Cups Can Be Used To Write Messages On Overpass Chain-Link Fences
Adorable!
Adorable!
I have a good proportion of
I have a good proportion of my kitchen real estate devoted to styrofoam packaging, given that, out of the blue, Somerville no longer seems to support recycling that. According to the city website, we're just supposed to throw that recyclable stuff in the trash.
Did they actually accept
Did they actually accept styrofoam in the past everywhere I've been said it can't be collected with recycling.
sorta
AFAIK they never accepted styrofoam curbside, but had a styrofoam collection day twice(?) a year when you could bring it to the DPW by Trum Field, like the hazwaste collection days.
I too have a bunch of styrofoam in my basement that I never got around to taking over there while they were still collecting it.
That's because contrary to
That's because contrary to the maxim, more often than not, one person's trash is just another person's trash. Plenty more information available on that by googling "recycling crisis".
This summarizes it:
"Turns out that’s a big problem: Many people (including me), thinking we’re doing the environmentally responsible thing, recycle stuff that is contaminated or otherwise unrecyclable, including greasy pizza boxes, polyethylene-lined coffee cups, yogurt cups, plastic take-out boxes stained with oil and plastic bags."
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/06/26/china-recycling-rich-barlow
Ummm
Somerville doesn't determine whether or not China is willing to accept our waste for recycling anymore. Do you think Somerville runs massive plants where recycling into new products take place? That happens overseas. If they don't want it, it doesn't get recycled.
Who owns the property?
My guess the property is owned by a landowner notorious for leaving mountains of trash, graffiti that last for months, and fences with more holes than swiss cheese. The owner also laughs at city inspectors who complain telling them "Do you know who I am, my name is MBTA.