Two weeks ago, we noted watching a sanitation department official sort through discarded mail in the trash can on the corner of Avenue C and 11th Street.
So, yeah the city can and will fine you $100 for throwing trash from your apartment into city-owned trash cans on the street.
EV Grieve reader thisboyshouts passed along this yesterday: "Someone in my building, a couple of doors down from that corner, got a ticket this morning for doing exactly that from the sanitation dept. It was tacked on to the front door of the building for all to see. The SD has the address, you think they could at least mail it..."
Previously on EV Grieve:
The city is working hard to fine you for throwing away household trash
5 comments:
"The SD has the address, you think they could at least mail it..."
Nah.. I say let the public shaming continue. :)
I was walking up Avenue B at 7 a.m. yesterday, and I saw a white sanitation department car pull up, and a woman got out wearing blue gloves. She started going through a trash bin like the guy pictured. I think it is great they are doing this, but what if someone goes through your trash and takes some of your mail and tosses it in one of the bins on the street? How can they prove you are the one who did it? Any homeless person digging through trash could do it.
I shred everything even my junk mail. The thought of some New York City weirdo even just seeing my name and address on some stray envelope is not okay with me. I trust nothing to nobody around here.
Why not put a nasty note to the Sanitation Dept in the city garbage cans?
WTF??? Suppose you pick up your mail and it's all junk and you're on your way somewhere? Are you just supposed to carry it around until you get home again? Please. Just rip it up real small so they can't see your address and smush up the name and address and toss them separately. Officious jerks. They should spend their time writing up REAL litterers and polluters. Like restaurants dumping their unwanted menus in your vestibule. I rip those up, too, and just return them to sender, as it were...
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