#community-cleanup

#community-cleanup

Last year, a quarter of residents described their neighbourhood as dirty or very dirty, rising to two in five in the city centre. Hester van Buren, city finance chief and responsible for waste collection, said however illogical it sounds, trials in busy shopping streets and parks have suggested that taking away some of the city's 12,000 litter bins is the answer.

One recent August morning, the sun was just rising when I was up and out the door of my apartment, heading to the Oakland estuary. Not everyone would be excited to get up at "oh-god-thirty" to tromp out to the bay's shoreline and strap themselves to a wobbly paddleboard to hunt down piles of garbage. But as an environmental reporter and water nerd, I was pumped.

Tired? Sunday Funday. Wired? Sunday done-day. Make our neighborhood better, brunch with cool people (sorry not sorry, we're biased), get deals to some fave local spots, and wrap it up before the Sunday Scaries hit with an easy hour of picking up trash around our neighborhood with friends and the community! SF Public Works, TogetherSF, Shine On SF, and Manny's is hosting a weekly neighborhood trash pick up to help keep our area clean and neat.

"When he sees someone using a pipe on Mission Street, 'I ask if they could please relocate and keep moving,' said Ronnie Calderon, a worker from Aysing Solutions..."

"They're so small, they're so lightweight, that the best practice is to sweep anything you lose up immediately. But I mean, think about dropping rice on your kitchen floor, it's just difficult, right?"