But Vota, who did not put the stickers on his cans, suggests DPW workers aren’t consistently checking for the markers.
Linda Grant, a DPW spokeswoman, says by email that the agency needs residents to “clearly identify” the old cans they wish to discard by using the stickers or turning them upside down and leaving them in an alley or on a curb. “If these go, then I’m going to be royally pissed,” he says. Vota’s neighbors bailed him out with a few replacements, but he worries the blitz-which ends this Saturday-will hit him again. “We used them in the neighborhood for multiple things.” “I wanted to keep them there,” Vota says. When Vota checked his back alley on Saturday, the old cans were gone. Vota actually got his new 32-gallon trash barrel and 48-gallon recycling “SuperCan” early on, but held on to two older cans for excess trash.
Although many DC residents are eager to get rid of the old cans, some want to hold on to the smaller trash bins for various purposes, like Petworth resident Wayan Vota. It was only made worse when the stickers started to degrade, becoming unreadable.ĭPW finally stepped up its game last Saturday when it started a “blitz,” to finish the removal job, but even that’s gone haywire. The problem got so bad on some blocks that the hyperactive neighborhood blog Popville took up the cause, publicizing of a block of Shaw where abandoned bins filled the sidewalk on both sides of Fourth Street, Northwest. Neighborhoods wound up with cans piled up in alleyways and street corners, sometimes attracting vermin. But Gray’s sanitation workers apparently didn’t heed the stickers in time, and come April, many old bins remained uncollected.
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