Comments on: Protect our City from waste

By: Merita

Merita — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:08:50 +0000

it’s not just Oakland. Ride a train across country, all’s well and then you get to California–oh my! Is there something wrong with our waste-collection system? Mounds of trash every few yards, some continuous trash lanes. It’s embarrassing, amazing, inexplicable…

By: merideth

merideth — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:39:27 +0000

The way so many Oaklanders freely litter angers me to the point of distraction. I’ve never lived in any other city where people will just dump bags of take-out trash, cds, glass bottles, full ashtrays and random paper (i’ve seen all of these first-hand) out of their car windows. I just don’t understand the disrespect of assuming that either a. someone else will pick up your trash or b. it’s ok to make our city look like a dump.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:24:59 +0000

When I was a kid, in the late fifties, movie theaters played trailers with anti-littering messages. I remember scenes of whole truckloads of crap being shoved over the roadside. It impressed me, anyway. Haven’t seen anything like it since, and why not? The heaps of crap are still there, if you walk for two minutes along Grizzly Peak Boulevard or east Redwood Road. Nina Reiser’s body is probably in one of those heaps.

By: Becks

Becks — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:04:10 +0000

I’d like to hope that Oakland can become sustainable and that the majority of us can learn not to litter. It’s so frustrating to see our trashed streets and to see buses treated like garbage cans.