Why is the City removing public trash cans?? Two have been removed from my street alone. What are we supposed to do with paper wrappers and other misc items we don't want to carry with us? Now people are being forced to litter the streets. Please bring back the public trash cans! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

People who dump their belongings and trash on sidewalks and all over the city. There should be "trash police" monitoring high dumpage areas and start giving tickets. People should take their refuge to the dump! It is very unsightly and make neighborhoods look terrible. Another pet peeve is the graffiti that's everywhere! There needs to be more police out at night catching there taggers. San Francisco has become a very dirty city in general. It's very sad. Catherine Mastropoalo Read This Posty »

The neighborhoods are filthy because of trash being dumped. I can see why because the scavengers make it so difficult for people to get things recycled that they give up and dump on the beautiful streets of S.F. Carol Volk Read This Posty »

San Francisco isn't greening as much as you appear to believe. Take a walk down San Jose around 23rd, or Bartlett St between 21st and... There have been what could well be toxic and/or flammable liquids sitting in containers for weeks at a time. I see city workers "cleaning up" quite often, but each day when I take my dog out, the trash is still there. Nothing is done about littering. Nothing is done about public urination. I doubt this takes place only in the Mission. I see people throw garbage on our Read This Posty »

My pet peeve is about the people who go through the recycling cans before the trash is picked up by Sunset Scavengers. I thought that our great City was known for recycling and that WE make money on the recycled products. The Taraval Police station refuses to do anything because it is a "municipal" matter. So, Mayor Newsom, who would handle that? I don't appreciate strangers going through my trash when it is against the law. How do I know that those people going through the garbage aren't into identity theft? As a home Read This Posty »

One of my pet peeves is that my neighborhood, Bernal Heights is like an unincorporated part of some third world country. There are blocks with no sidewalks or curbs, and the streets are like dirt roads. Potholes abound and I will see abandoned cars, washing machines and other garbage accumulating and staying for very long periods of time. It feels like my neighborhood is a forgotten wasteland completely ignored by the city of San Francisco. I am a property owner and I pay my taxes but they certainly don't come back into this neighborhood. Read This Posty »

This beautiful city has become one of the dirtiest in the country.  And no wonder -- you have to walk a mile to find a garbage pail.  Install garbage pails so that the many of us who would like to dispose of garbage properly have a means of doing so.  And strengthen and enforce the law on cleaning storefront areas. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Lack of street cleaning in Bernal Heights -- Cortland cross-streets, particularly. Curbside plant areas full of weeds and trash; nothing of beauty, nothing to care about, making residents feel, and appear to be, the city's trash. Lack of pride in all areas of the city; the appearance that only the districts where the rich live means anything to the powers that be. Myra Covington Read This Posty »

I just drove through the park at 5:30 am on the way to work today.  Two people sleeping in the park; every garbage can over flowing; the signs, which were to allow the police to ticket those drinking in the park, have still not been installed.  Looks like the City just doesn't care about real, day to day quality of life issues for its residents.  Chip Sutherland Read This Posty »

How is it that over three hundred acres of city park land is cared for by a staff of 3 gardeners and one foreman? I have been living at the end of Prague Street for over fifteen years and the area just bellow the brand new La Grande water tower is so over grown I nearly lost my five year old daughter in the tall weeds on Sunday morning. I even saw my neighbors with their own electric weed wackers, trying to put a dent in this ridiculously tall grass. It's not too bad right now but once it all Read This Posty »

One thing I have been noticing in S.F are the constant dirty streets. Every where I see people throwing garbage on the floor and not onto the garbage cans. During saturdays, my volunteer organization would clean up Chinatown alleyways so the elderly and children would feel safe crossing the streets. I dislike how people would constantly throw garbage on the streets and ignore the environment. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Restaurants (Naan N' Chutney 525 Haight St, Metro Cafe 247 Fillmore St, Squat & Gobble CafÈ 237 Fillmore St, Indian Oven Restaurant 233 Fillmore St) dumping their garbage around the corner on a residential street (Laussat Street). Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Mr. Newsome: I have one suggestion: our city should require each household (each address) to subscribe to garbage collection service.  I live in the Outer Richmond and constantly see people (always Asian, probably Chinese) take out their household trash in small plastic bags and deposit it in public trash bins near schools, libraries, and bus stops.  This practice is nasty and makes me mad, not only because it unfairly takes advantage of the public, makes our environment dirty, wastes a lot of otherwise recyclable plastic, but also (most importantly!) gives us Chinese bad names.  What's really sickening is that these people Read This Posty »

However we waste water at an unimaginable rate. I walk and take the bus to work and everyday I see businesses and residents hose down their sidewalks! Bars hose down the cigarette butts into the streets.. where the butts go into the bay. Using water to clean a sidewalk is not an environmentally sound thing to do. Use a broom. DON"T use a blower. USE A BROOM!! Then pick up the garbage and put it in the trash. A BROOM is environmentally sound, or rather soundless and it uses calories too.We need to institute a ban on hosing down stoops Read This Posty »

Please stop people from rummaging through the recycling bins on garbage night!  These are often not desperate homeless people, but usually Asian folks whom I recognize as living in the neighborhood!  They’re obviously trying to make money by stealing from our bins! Every week they come equipped with bags, carts, and sometimes even cars.  We’ve tried to wait until after 8:00 pm to put our recyclables outside, but when the days are longer and warmer, they come as late as 10 pm.  Sometimes, they even come around in the mornings before the garbage trucks arrive. Maybe Sunset Scavenger could design bins Read This Posty »

As an artist, I yearn for more public art and projects in which inspire our community. Support local art projects and support the artists that want to still live in this city. This does not include graffiti, however. Graffiti is a huge problem, especially near Muni stops. Many busy Muni stops in the city are filled with graffiti and garbage. I feel for anyone who lives adjacent to a Muni stop. Muni buses continue to get more and more crowded. I have lived here for 13 years, and each year gets worse and worse. I ride the #1 California most often, and Read This Posty »

I live and work in the Mission and sometimes feel like I work for the City, picking up garbage on the sidewalks between work and home. I also clean tags off our building every week.  My pet Peeve is the garbage.  My clients and visiting family from other parts of the country come to my little area of the Mission and feel a bit threatened by the area I live in.  The prostitution problem seems to be getting resolved, but the trash and tagging is still just ridiculous.  Please put out more City trash cans and catch those tagging criminals.  Read This Posty »

I am a North Beach resident.  Over the past few years, the neighborhood (particularly Grant Street) has gotten progressively dirtier, and garbage pick up seems either insufficient or erratic.  Also, the quality of Broadway continues to deteriorate, with more garbage, more strip clubs and related sex shops and fewer other business establishments to balance to mix.  As a result, Broadway feels both unsafe and unsavory in the evening. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Having moved back to the Parkside, where I was reared, from the Peninsula, I am appalled at how dirty the streets are and at the dumping that is done.  There are no sanctions so people have no second thoughts about dumping their garbage on the streets.  China is cleaner than is San Francisco.  So is LA and DC.  The folks who are collecting GA could be paid more money to sweep the streets.  Merchants could contribute the additional monies.  It is to their advantage to have the streets like Taraval clean.  Also, the street parking is a real issue because Read This Posty »

I am constantly annoyed by the litter on Shotwell Street. This might be one of the dirtiest streets in San Francisco, I regularly sweep the sidewalk in front of my office but the litter and garbage along this street are more than I can take care of by myself. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

1.  Muni...does it ever come on time and do we really need to stop EVERY block??  It smells, its dirty and SO slow 2.  The trash that people are too lazy to throw in the trash can 2 feet away from them and instead throw it on the ground. 3.  How the homeless harass anyone who walks by them.  No...i don't have any money...means NO! Name Withheld Read This Posty »