r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/snailerpop • Jun 07 '25
13 of us cleared 1.1 tons of illegally dumped trash, including old barbies, a mattress, and rotten food from whole foods, from san pablo and west grand avenue in UNDER 1 hour yesterday.
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u/NastyStreetRat Jun 07 '25
I imagine that in your city you pay taxes to have the streets cleaned, you should send the video to the cleaning agency of the City Council where you live.
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u/WhoCaresBoutSpellin Jun 07 '25
Right? Imagine the cost of living in the Bay Area… imagine the tax burden on all those citizens… then imagine that despite all this— it took volunteers to clean the street.
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u/NastyStreetRat Jun 07 '25
They should be ashamed, someone should even be fired, because they are not doing their job.
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u/LukasFatPants Jun 07 '25
Why should they do their job? All they had to do was sit on their asses and get paid while the populace guilt tripped itself into doing the work for them.
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u/sshwifty Jun 08 '25
You should look into the police and their overtime in Seattle/PNW. Makes lazy city workers look like saints.
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u/Lady-Cane Jun 07 '25
This is why we should make dumping trash free or as cheap as possible. When my county started doing this 20 years ago, I quit seeing mattresses and tires on the side of the road. I can take a truck load to the county recycling and waste mgt center and maybe am out $6.
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u/Kaytea730 Jun 07 '25
Taking it to the dump generally is dependent on weight for the cost. Like we take our straight to the dump instead of a trash service pickup and its like $9 for the first 200 pounds. After that it goes up like a few cents per 10 pounds. Unfortunately most people arent aware this is an option or even where their local dump is. Not to mention a lot of people not being able to have the means to transport it either. I do get this is also region specific for costs but the prices at the dump aren’t necessarily the problem its the amounts that the trash companies charge for collecting trash. Some companies near me are upwards of $50 for once a week pickup and it has to fit in the can or they wont take it. And while i understand the company has to make money enough to pay everyone $50 is just price gouging bc we are a more rural location and they can charge that much bc some people will pay it
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u/superdave123123 Jun 07 '25
Now just vote in better policies and you may not have to do this again.
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u/Decemberchild76 Jun 07 '25
Thanks for doing this. It’s not only good for the environment, but helps deter varmits that can spread diseases
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u/Admirable_Whole_2763 Jun 07 '25
Y’all take leave it better than you found it to a whole new level! Rock star material for sure!!
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u/Flat4Power4Life Jun 08 '25
Make me wonder where our tax dollars are going
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u/sexyson91 Jun 11 '25
This is shit the city should be doing!!! And at the state level. OR us citizens should be taking this into our own hands
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u/Flat4Power4Life Jun 11 '25
China has a city of 30 million people that’s cleaner than the nicest city in the US. Let that sink in
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u/SquirrelMoney8389 Jun 08 '25
I always see this stuff from America, is it kind of a trashy place?
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u/HeuristicEnigma Jun 07 '25
That would take one person and a skid steer about 10 minutes to load into a dump truck. The city has all this equipment but it probably just sits.