Trash Talk
So, last week, our damn-fine-looking mayor decided to reduce the number of city-owned trash cans on the streets of our fair city. Apparently this little piece of news got “thrown out,” what with all the other political excitement we’ve had lately, and was “buried” so we didn’t have to “waste” our time on it (take that, Cecilia Vega!).
Who knew, that at $700 a pop, and saving the city almost $215,000, just for the cans themselves, that removing them would anger so many people? Any business that sells food or beverages is required by law to have their own trash can outside, and many businesses don’t even have trash service (fascinating, I know). Do we really have that much trash we have to throw away? I mean, really?
I think it kind of makes sense - Gavin’s reasoning is that the current cans are being used for household trash, which they aren’t supposed to be, and people are throwing too much trash in them. Sounds like an Onion article, I know.
It makes me think of the day we got our car…
I was driving home after having picked it up, and was on 20th Street at a red light at Folsom. There was a teenage girl crossing the street with the Folsom’s green light, eating a bag of chips. She finished, and just let the bag go, mid-air. Just like that. She let it go. She didn’t even bother to take the time to throw it to the ground, as if that was even too much trouble for her. There was a trash can right on the corner as she stepped up onto the sidewalk.
I was amazed. Is it so hard to just wait the one and a half seconds and put it IN the trash can? Why throw it on the ground, I mean, just let it go mid-air? I’m always surprised when people don’t want to take more ownership of their community. I just don’t get it.
June 27th, 2007 at 7:25 am
Yeah, it always bothers be to see folks just drop their crap on the ground like the world is their garbage can. Now I know on a global scale we Americans DO think that, but it takes every once of my control - that and an urge NOT to be shot - to pick it up and hand it back to them saying, “I think you dropped this.”
June 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
It starts in the home. Children learn habits from those who raise them.
June 27th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
If you had of went to the last FQT you would of learned that this is a part of a replacement project.
You have to admit that this style of trash depot is not antiseptically astute with the decor of the new San Francisco.