Corporate Polluter

I have to wonder what kind of lazy employees work at this Dollar General on Spring Hill Avenue. How hard can it be to put trash in a dumpster?

Here, most of the trash is on the ground and the dumpster enclosure doors are wide open allowing the loose trash on the ground to be flushed away by rain.

And this is acceptable by Mobile's municipal litter code enforcement department? Apparently so because this is a common sight at many Dollar General Stores.

They don't call Mobile the Bay of Pigs by accident. Even corporations are allowed to wallow in squalor.

Ugly Garbage Collection

Garbage cans without lids are often highlighted in the Ugly reports on this blog.

So it was surprising to see that City of Mobile has started putting lids on some of their garbage cans in Helen Wood Park. In the above photo you can see a wooden lid on a garbage can although it is upside down. But the upside down lid is preventing loose trash from escaping into the environment.

Unfortunately the wooden garbage can lids have no handle on them so when someone puts the lid on the ground the lid will probably stay on the ground. It is kind of hard to educate ignorant people in Mobile to put the lid back on the garbage can.

Even if garbage cans have lids on them when the City of Mobile just drives past garbage receptacles that the wind or wild dogs have knocked over it shows the Ugly reality like seen above after this weeks garbage pickup. The reality is there are some seriously Ugly problems with garbage collection in Mobile.

Ugly Park Visitors

The trashy Municipal Park Lake in Mobile. There were dozens if not hundreds of empty plastic bread bags in and around the Lake. Apparently there are a lot of littering criminals using the public park and no litter enforcement officers issuing tickets to deter the crime of littering.

Or, maybe the Visitors to Municipal Park properly disposed of their trash in one of the City's inferior open top trash receptacles and wind or birds scattered the lightweight trash throughout the Park. It is obvious this overflowing trash receptacle is not emptied frequently enough.

Either way, the result of the trash collection problem in City Parks is Ugly. It shows the City of Mobile has no intention of getting tough on their community's litter and their storm water trash pollution problem. 

The City of Mobile Parks Department will not use garbage cans with lids on them even thou city municipal code mandates residential and commercial property owners use trash receptacles with lids on them to prevent trash from escaping into the environment. The City of Mobile Parks Director should be Fired!

Ugly China Loving Mardi Trash Societies

With weather forecasters issuing high wind warnings (gale force winds), this is what Mobile allows some Mardi Trash Socieities to do with their trash. Instead of putting their trash in proper garbage containers or dumpsters, they dump their  trash on the ground. Where is Mobile's Litter Enforcement Unit?

Trash dumped next a public sidewalk for several days.

How are these boxes ending up so far apart? Wind.

Why put trash in a dumpster when throwing it on the ground is easier?

More irresponsible treatment of trash.

And the result of that irresponsibility is high winds blow some of that trash away.

Another irresponsible Mardi Gras Society that dumps its trash on the ground on the side of a street.

And yes, the high winds blow some of that trash away because it was not properly contained.

Right-of-Way at the end of a public street littered with Mardi Gras Trash because the trash was not put in containers despite the high wind forecasts.

Yeend Street Canal littered with plastic bags compliments of the nearby Mardi Gras Society's illegal streetside garbage dumps.

The China supporting trash Socieities ought be happy that I am not in charge of Mobile's Litter Enforcement Department because if I was in charge a couple of Mardi Gras Socieities would be banned from participating in next year's China's Trashfest Parades plus they would be facing fines in the tens of thousands of dollars to help pay laborers to remove all the trash from waterways polluted with Mardi Gras trash.

Ugly Garbage Pickup Service

This is the scene AFTER the City of Mobile garbage collection service in Mobile, Alabama. And the City has leaders like councilman Freddy Richardson claiming the City certainly plays no role in littering and the pollution of Mobile waterways. 

Well, if City garbage collection service ignores the trash a few feet away from the City's garbage Cart, regardless of whether the trash got on the ground by a dog, from an over stuffed container, from wind blowing over the unstable top heavy container, or from trash falling to the ground during automated arm pickup, the City is guilty of substandard garbage pickup service if they ignore the trash. That is Ugly! 

In this case, if it rains while the trash remains in the drainage ditch it becomes Storm Water Trash and it is likely to end up polluting a public waterway.

Ignoring trash on the ground next to a garbage cart during garbage pickup service makes as much sense as a worker at a car wash tasked with cleaning the car ignoring muddy areas on the car while washing it because "He or She didn't put the mud there in those spots.".