Action #044

Report dumped rubbish to your council

 
This action has been done 2,513 times which means there are 2,513 fewer stained mattresses or rusty ovens left in the street.
 
 

If you see some rubbish on the street in your area, it's very easy to just go 'tsk tsk' and do nothing about it. And quite good fun too, because going 'tsk tsk' is strangely addictive. But if you ring your local council, they're obliged to come and clean it up.

It's a win-win because the street looks nicer, and you get something back for your council tax.

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  • Renate Simsa Renate Simsa did this action

    Rubbish/Litter


    Hello,

    not only is rubbish a problem, but litter also in our city. Empty paper cups, plastic bags, newspaper blowing around, kleenex, plastic pop and water bottles in the gutter or on the lawn. One piece of litter attacts another. Whereever I walk, I have some plastic grocery bags with me and tongs to pick these items up and put them in my trash or the trash boxes the city provides. Good exercise and keeps my neighborhood looking good and sometimes someone else gets motivated to help and sometimes it keeps someone from dropping litter in the street.     16 August 2008, 20:04
  • buggymenace buggymenace did this action

    Don't dump it in the street.


    Glancing out of the window one morning, I was astonished to find that a mattress had appeared leaning against the wall of the house opposite. Good heavens, how had that got there? I had only just passed on my way back from the nursery. These flytippers have cloaks of invisibility! Pushing aside a very uncharitable thought that the smartly dressed young people who share the house may have slipped it over the wall (no surely not), I then had to decide...how to report.
    And here I must admit I fell for the anonymous charm of the wonderfully transactional Council website and used an eform. A day later, a lovely lady from the council phoned and assured me that the mattress would be spirited away by the Accord angels...which it presently was. On a roll now, I promptly reported the computer monitor that appeared, closely followed by the bookcase that was so thoughtfully left across the pavement one dark and rainy night.
    Using my powers of detection, I surmise that perhaps a student had recently been doing a bit of spring cleaning and had to throw out that old Argos bookcase for the new Ikea Billy that holds so much more. What a good thing that the old busybody at the end will just ring up the council and save you the hassle of sorting out your own rubbish. In fact, you are doing me a good turn. I literally have nothing better to do, so it keeps me out of mischief.     17 April 2008, 12:33
  • Kevin Kevin did this action

    Public blue boxes


    I recently saw two public blue boxes at the Union Station subway stop in Toronto. What a shame. So many people had used both the "newspapers" and "Bottles and cans" as GARBAGE that both would likely be thrown away as garbage. The carelessness of a few spoil the good of so many. But what's the answer? Would colour coding the receptacles help? How about a logo for NO GARBAGE PLEASE!

    I have previously witnessed what gets thrown in these bins and what I saw at Union Station is not an isolated incident. "We are what we do" helps spread good ideas. Thanks for a great website!!!     23 February 2008, 10:51

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