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potatopotatoed t1_ja8f9qa wrote

Reply to comment by demarginator in Things DC does really well by erichinnw

It's the absence of street-punctuating bags of trash that does it for me

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AlienBeach t1_ja99voz wrote

Public tash cans in general. I know the way NYC handles trash is unique to them among American cities. But every time I travel to a different American city, especially on the west coast, I'm always annoyed at the lack of public trash cans. Portland Oregon and San Francisco are particularly bad at this. I wouldn't be shocked if their reputations for being dirty was directly tied to this. In DC/Silver Spring/Alexandria/Arlington etc, the commercial districts and major roads have public trash cans basically on every block, on both sides of the block, and on every bus stop. I always notice it when I travel to a different city and I have trash and I go to where I expect a trash can to be but nothing.

I was in Portland recently and had a candy wrapper I wanted to throw away. I was on a major commerical street, and I had to walk so many blocks to find a single public can, and even then, I had to cross the street to use it

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snarkyturtle t1_ja9y1ty wrote

Berkley, however, absolutely has the public trash can game down though. They even have different compartments for recyclables.

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Milazzo t1_ja8wyyl wrote

Also...whatever that liquid actually is that builds up in the gutters around sidewalk street crossings.

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xiefeilaga t1_jaajh41 wrote

I believe the scientific term is street juice

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Milazzo t1_jaajm4j wrote

I got some splashed on my foot once - it turned into a nasty rash within an hour. Never wore open shoes ever again in the four years I lived there.

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