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
By anon
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 5:00pm
If that bothers you that much. Better than syringes, underwear and condoms.
Definitely
By HolyMolyCodPiece
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 6:07pm
Those three things are eeewwwww gross!
ew?
By dmcboston
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:16pm
Only if you're not the first user...
get a garbage bag...
By formerlyTheSoBo...
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 6:32pm
...and pick it up. it would take all of 30 seconds.
It's Art
By dmcboston
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:15pm
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
By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 6:35pm
The cup stacker may be making the same point as the person who made the complaint?
Here's something to think about Swirl...
By dmcboston
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 10:15pm
...covered cups. Probably not rinsed out first...been pretty hot and humid lately...
Stacked up because someone is
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 9:39am
Stacked up because someone is picking them up.
Maybe some grouch Bostonian
By anon
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 6:45pm
Maybe some grouch Bostonian can knock them down in a fit of rage like those rental bikes
cups
By Earl Egdall
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 6:53pm
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
By Elmer
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 9:10pm
[img]http://www.mysuburbanlife.com/_internal/cimg!0/pzb...
Adorable!
By anon
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 11:03pm
Adorable!
I have a good proportion of
By be
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 9:59pm
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
By anon
Sun, 07/29/2018 - 11:26pm
Did they actually accept styrofoam in the past everywhere I've been said it can't be collected with recycling.
sorta
By surprisefries
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 2:02pm
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
By dvg
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 7:07am
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-r...
Ummm
By Coyote137
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 12:28pm
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?
By anon
Mon, 07/30/2018 - 9:04am
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.
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