Posted on 09/08/2021 1:01:04 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In Philadelphia, litter and illegal dumping have become climate issues.
Philadelphia Water Department crews spent days cleaning trash out of the city’s nearly 75,000 storm drains, in preparation for remnants of Hurricane Ida. Prodigious levels of trash and litter in the city — the only without a citywide street cleaning program — means storm drains are frequently clogged by debris.
“When we have a forecast and we know that we have a storm like this, we go out to areas that we know can be problematic, in terms of being low lying or where there’s a lot of trash or other debris that’s been clogging up drains,” said Brian Rademaekers, a spokesperson for PWD. “So we were doing that for the last five days ahead of the Ida event.”
Clogged drains, in turn, can be a huge problem
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Philly’s trash problem?
Are they talking about people in North Philly and Kensington?...
At one time the response would have been just Kensington/Port Richmond...now we have a long list of neighborhoods to choose from...sadly.
You must understand that this is an ancient tradition practiced in their native homeland.
This old tradition is carefully passed on generation after generation, father to son, mother to daughter. When you see empty 40s and empty packs of Newports and Kools, you can be sure you are treading on sacred ground.
This is why they can’t have nice things.
Philthydelphia.
The City tried to clean this mess up, last month. Didn’t take long for it to return to its natural state.
Ok so this is not a Philadelphia related post. I live on a corner plot mixed residential area of suburban Tx. I’m forever picking up trash off my property. Pisses me off bigtime. Last month I found a pizza box on my lawn with a remaining slice inside. The two legged trashers who discard their garbage reveal that they are low class scums. No shortage of them either.
So you want to know what a sanctuary city looks like, and how it operates.
Which came first — the Philly Rat or the Philly Trash?
nicer the lawn the bigger the trash magnet
they know you will pick it up... eco-litterers
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After Sandy I visited places in NYC that got cleaner after the flood waters swept through.
For Philly, that is their street cleaning program
Do you find drugged out zombies living under tarps on your sidewalk?
Do people randomly try to stab you for being white?
Do women walking around offer BJ’s for drugs or alcohol?
Philly isn’t New Hampshire.
I do remember reading some years ago that NH consumes the most alcohol per person in the US.
Philly really is exceptionally nasty as far as trash (from myriad small pieces up to junked cars just left on the side of the road). Some of the worst areas I’ve been through lately are on Broad St, near Temple University, the “can & bottle collectors” go from bag to bag, ripping them open to get what they want and the rest just pours out and blows or is dragged all over the place. And it’s not unusual to see 2 or 3 weeks worth of garbage piled up these days; since pretty much no one is working (unemployment bennies still holding out) so there are no crews to collect it.
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