Welcome to Beautiful and Historic Downtown Gloucester. Visitors, you’re often left to dispose of your trash on the sidewalk or street. Nearby residents, you dump your household trash in the barrels or on the sidewalk when they’re full. It’s convenient for you and you save $2 per week.
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Well said, Fred. It’s a shame that both occur frequently in places we love.
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Or as I like to call us, “Gloucester,Trashachusetts”. We need a “Clean City Initiative” and a total revamping of our trash collection/recycling systems. One overturned (by wind, wildlife,whatever-we have it all) recycling bin litters a whole neighborhood.
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They made the mistake this way of removing bins thinking it would be less work? And when there only 30 feet from a location it’s easier to just throw it on the ground. I spent a week getting attention to Graffiti removal (Criminal damage to Public property & Private Property vandalism). It was clean until about weeks until the same Crew/Krew struck again! Give up NEVER! Dave:-O
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Thanks for this picture, I missed it the other day and I was kicking myself for it. This is the expensive solar panel trash container that is not worth the money. We know all the answers we just need to do them as a city. Too many times this winter I have been downtown and the barrels are overflowing. The Clean City Initiative will be meeting with the D.D.C. and talking about replacing some of the barrels downtown, they are a mess and also we would like to have recycling downtown and throughout our city. We need non touchable covers, no one wants to touch a cover to put trash in and most of our covers are a mess. Solar too expensive, just empty them on a schedule that will keep our city clean from their overflow. Have recycling next to them it makes people think, trash or recycling and most times people will do the right thing but when they see this mess, well what would you do? We have three wind turbines and no recycling in our downtown. Go Figure. This Earth Day we will need EVERYONE on board so please lend a hand if only one yellow bag, we can do it, it’s your city.
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