Clean 2K S Watts

Rite Aid leaves its trash out all week. It encourages people to pick through it and leave their own trash. Plus, the neighbors have to look at it and it blocks the sidewalk along with their illegal enclosure. A day after neighbors cleaned up the block watch Waste Management drag boxes down the street, leaving a stream of debris.

A small block in South Philly is feeling hopeless. Businesses illegally dump their trash, blatantly ignoring the law. Elected officials and city administrators, who explicitly champion clean street agendas, endorse this behavior. When a residential neighborhood is allowed to look like a landfill people treat it that way.