- Case Date:
- 8/5/2020
There are two piles of trash that were dumped illegally in the alley between Washington, Walnut, Dodds, and Dixie. One pile is in the middle of the alley obstructing traffic (closer to Dixie), and the other pile is closer to Dodds.
- Case Date:
- 8/5/2020
Bloomington Sanitation Department,
At 3 AM of Wednesday, August 8, 2020 on the morning of trash pickup day at 1412 S. Winfield Rd., 47401, my wife was up watching a recorded news program when a crash was heard from the bottom of our driveway where the cans awaited pickup. The bang was followed by a loud dragging sound. She walked to the bottom of the drive and found the landscaping can in the recycling can were gone.
She woke me and we searched for the cans until we found them three doors south on the Boulevard of the Southwest corner of the Moores Pike roundabout.
At first I thought at 3 AM, it must've been a drunk. However, the more I thought about it, the more unlikely I thought it would be that a drunk would be able to retain the cans for 50 yards.
Retaining the cans brings me to the question which I thought worth sharing with the city. I cannot think of any way to carry the cans that far without damaging one's vehicle other than the way the city does it – hooking a lifter up under the bar built-into the can.
If a prankster is trying to develop a "trick-or-treat… Throw your garbage in the streets" system, the potential chaos it could create for the city sanitation system seems to me to be huge and I would recommend that the city proactively try to answer the following questions.
1.) Have any of the lifting mechanisms used by the city trucks ever disappeared?
2.) Since this system is presumably used throughout the country, can such a lifter be bought online?
3.) Are there any YouTube videos about how to make a lifter that someone could have been testing on Winfield Road?
4.) Has the company from which the city purchased the cans and lifters had experience with cans being fiddled with when they are sitting ducks beside the road the night before garbage pickup? If so, what did these other municipalities do about it?
I got my cans and my trash back in time to leave it out for pickup, but the next victim might not be so lucky.
Thanks for your attention,
Eric Mjolsnes
Trash
CRJ Bahía Blanca Buenos Aires AR, Agustín Álvarez 1378, B8000 Bahía Blanca, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Case Date:
- 8/5/2020
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- Case Date:
- 8/4/2020
We recently moved to this address and have had a lot of boxes and Styrofoam to throw away. Our trashcan is so small, trash and recycle got picked up today and they are both already full again. Is there a place we can go to dump them or can we get a bigger trashcan?
- Case Date:
- 7/30/2020
Neighbors have left their garbage cans on my property for +48 hours after trash pickup
- Case Date:
- 7/27/2020
Trash bins have been sitting in front yard and on sidewalk for weeks. Request they be stored in back (west side) of house.
Trash
816 E University ST
- Case Date:
- 7/25/2020
the trash and recycling receptacles have been on the sidewalk for 5 days. The yard is full of trash. There is pool that is full of standing water that has been there for about a month. There is busted indoor furniture in the yard. I'm not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure I saw a rat near the foundation yesterday.
Trash
3801 S Woods Edge BND
- Case Date:
- 7/23/2020
Trash has not yet been picked up on Woods Edge Bend and the south end of Sherwood Oaks. Just reporting to make sure someone was aware that is section of Bloomington was missed.
- Case Date:
- 7/23/2020
Neighbors trash overflowing, spilling everything as animals get into it.
Trash
524 E University ST
- Case Date:
- 7/21/2020
My trash bin disappeared after Monday (7/20). I came at noon at home and only the recycling bin was there.