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Citizen complaint of the day: Guy caught dumping a mattress reacts about like you'd expect
By adamg on Fri, 09/29/2023 - 12:07pm
A peeved citizen files a 311 complaint about an incident on Wallingford Road in Brighton yesterday evening:
Some one drove down the street and dumped a box spring on the sidewalk. I said he that’s not cool. They said f’ you and f’ mayor Wu and charging for box springs to be removed. So someone can dump a bed or box spring and the sidewalk neighbor gets charged?!? Wow
The city marked the complaint closed this morning, after a crew picked up the offending mattress.
Earlier:
Drive-by mattressing in West Roxbury.
Ed. note: As is par for the course for Wu haters, the mattress dumper got his facts wrong. It was the state, not the city, that banned putting mattresses and box springs out in the trash. The city will collect them for free, for recycling, instead of incineration, but you have to schedule that now, by calling or visiting 311, but that is perhaps too much effort for some people.
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Comments
Do they charge?
As far as I know, there's no charge for picking up bedding, just like picking up computer/video screens, TVs, etc. You just need to contact the city's sanitation department in advance so they send a separate truck.
Not sure why anybody is
Not sure why anybody is surprised, this is imminently foreseeable when you charge to dispose of items rather than charge at the time of purchase.
Go back and read the Ed. Note
The city will collect them for free . . .
Mattresses are only picked up
Mattresses are only picked up from the City of Boston from residences with less than 7 units, and they will not service any buildings that do not fill this requirement. That means anyone living in most Boston apartments will not be serviced and must go through a third-party junk removal. So yes, a government policy was put into place but in true Boston fashion it does not service those who would most need the assistance since most low income residents live in an apartment building with more than 6 units.
Good ole' government
Ready, fire, aim.
I they live in a building with more than 6 units
Then they can put the mattress in the trash room.
If you live in a big place the landlord handles the trash...
And you can just put it in the trash room/dumpster.
Mattress get picked up-just 311 and make an appt
I'm not sure where anyone gets their info. I live in a 2 family (2 units), I had a mattress that needed to get picked up, I made an appt and the city came to get it. Not a lot of drama. Just a mattress pick up.
Smart. Dump it yourself, file
Smart. Dump it yourself, file a 311 complaint about it, no charge pickup.
City doesn't charge for pickup.
But it has to be scheduled.
Cut this Trumper some slack.
Cut this Trumper some slack. You'd be upset too if you peed your bed on a weekly basis like him.
Please reconsider your comment
Plenty of people have urinary incontinence issues, many because of childbirth, medication or prostate issues. None of these care what your politics are.
Yeah man
What Swirly says - comparing Trump supporters to bed-wetters is really mean to bed-wetters.
Bedwetting isn't a political issue
Trumpers are contemptable for their willful, vitriolic and violent ignorance. Leave people with regrettable medical issues alone.
As someone who dealt with The
As someone who dealt with The Damp Mattress as my bladder was calling it in for good,(and for awhile after the urostomy) I find the comment hilarious!!!
Peece/out (see what I did there!!?!)
Limitation to the city collection program
I would like to believe that all large-property managers have a recycle protocol in place and have communicated that protocol to tenants, but evidence on sidewalks, behind buildings and next to dumpsters suggests otherwise.
The City thinks they’re green
Trash, recyclables, yard waste, food waste, tv’s/appliances and now mattresses require separate pickups. The City uses more fossil fuel and spends more money on labor to pick up all the consumables at different times.
[Citation needed]
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