Trash Pick-up

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Does anyone have a link or knowledge about Somerville's new garbage laws regarding things having to be in a trash barrel with a lid? I'm doing spring cleaning, and already I have much more than will fit in the house's barrels. Without a car I can't take it to a dump, and some of it is perishable stuff that will stink if left til the following week...

Thanks for any guidance.

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They're definitely ticketing.

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

I had the pleasure of spending a morning at Somerville District Court with a bunch of fellow citizens all fighting trash tickets. It was awesome. I was hoping for a real judge because I felt the need to vent, but instead the whole herd of us violators were seated around a table in the library, whereupon the court clerk explained that they really didn't know how to deal with these tickets, and a representative from the city fumbled through his paperwork in an attempt to justify the tickets (he was so unprepared the court clerk pretty much told him to stop talking). There was much complaining and then all the first-timers had their tickets dismissed en masse. And I was warned I wouldn't be so lucky next time.

Incidentally, my ticket was for "wood blocking sidewalk." Apparently, during the same week my wife and I spent at the Brigham having a baby, someone leaned a board against my wall. To say it was blocking the sidewalk would be like saying the city has a smart ticketing policy. And to presume it was my board instead of, say, coming from the construction site next door was genius.

But as much as the stupid ticket bothered me, what bothers me more is the tremendous amount of trash that blows around my street. Maybe we all need this tough love to get the city clean.