I understand why the city took away many trash cans around certain neighborhoods. However, when you took away all of the cans on Onondoga in front of Balboa High School, you took away opportunities for the already messy high school and middle school students to throw their many empty potato chip bags and soda cans. Additionally, those cans were used by neighbors walking their dogs (and me too) to throw away dog waste. Now some people don't even bother to pick up after their dog. Please put the trash cans back! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Removal of trash cans in a city plagued by litter and trash. What is up with that? Chris McGinnis Read This Posty »

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 »

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 »

People dumping trash on corners. I believe what needs to be done is Sunset Scavenger or some recycling agency needs to go to schools and teach children the benefit of keeping the city clean. Let the kids teach the parents not to dump on city streets. Then the city should send out pamphlets every 6 months telling citizens the proper way of disposing trash. Also there seems to be an epidemic of people throughout the city taking everyones recycling. I have been awakened by my dog barking at the person at 5AM. The person did not care, Read This Posty »

Smokers in general, but especially those that throw their cigarette butts on the ground, and people who litter - San Francisco is not your personal trash can! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

The extra clean patrol really helped the street litter problem. Since the trash cans have been removed, there is much more litter on the streets, thus creating more work for the Clean Patrol. If trash cans were available people would not just drop their litter on the sidewalk. Thanks Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Instead of less garbage cans, we need more in certain downtown areas, such as 7th Street between Mission & Market Streets.  There are none at all and there is always bottles and paper in the street and sidewalk. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

My pet peeve is seeing the trash piling up in the city streets. I don't understand the rationale to remove public trash cans in an already filthy city. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Garbage cans, why on this earth did you remove them? More trash and litter on the streets? Do we really want that? I think not! Name Withheld Read This Posty »

Sorry to come across sounding brash, but are you absolutely NUTS?! One of the very first things I noticed out here 4 YEARS AGO when I moved here from NY, was the apparent lack of trash cans and pay phones (on every corner back east). I realize most people now use cell phones, but to even suggest that removing some of the trash cans is the way to clean up the city...is purely and completely INSANE! People throw trash on the ground because they cannot FIND a can within 4 blocks usually. As for Muni...less stops isn't the answer, as Read This Posty »

STUPID IDEA REMOVING THE CITY'S TRASH CANS!! WHOEVER ANALIZED THE RATIO OF SF POPULATION TO THE # OF TRASH CANS COMPARED TO OTHER US CITIES DID NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ALL THE ADDITIONAL TOURISTS SF GETS WHO NEED THE TRASH CANS!!! IF THERE ARE FEWER WE ARE GOING TO GET MORE TRASH!! IF LOCALS ARE USING THEM THEN FINE THEIR ASSES!! DON\"T PUNISH/TRASH OUR SF BECAUSE OF A STUPID WRONGLY ANALYZED TRASH CAN STUDY -- ANY STUDY CAN BE INTERPRETED ANY WAY A PERSON WANTS THEIR CONCLUSION TO BE -- PICK ANOTHER CONCLUSION TO BRING BACK THE TRASH CANS!!!! Cathleen Thompson Read This Posty »

Why is it that Mayor Newsom spent all this money on trying to figure out the problem with the trash throughout San Francisco? I think it was a complete waste of time. The simple thing he could have done was walk through neighborhoods and counted the trash recepticles on each street. I live in the TenderNob, and from my house to the closest trash can is two blocks. After that it's another four blocks. But the funny thing is that in Union Square, some streets have three or four trash cans on one street (and that's only counting on one side Read This Posty »

Will someone please let the Mayor know that strong supporters like myself are getting discouraged with the the latest "quality of life issues" that the Mayor is proposing such as the elimination of garbage cans.  It is my habit to pick up trash as I walk along the city streets, for sometime now I had to carry the trash for over SIX blocks or more to finally dispose of it.  Please, Please this is not the answer to keeping garbage that small businesses place in the garbage cans when they close at night.  Also, as far as curtailing MUNI STOPS Read This Posty »

Hi there,      I am writing this in sincere regard for the future of how our city looks.  Recently I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that the City of San Francisco removed a large number of garbage bins off the streets.  Immediately I was surprised that we would take the one neccessary item to help keep our city clean off the streets.  I also didn't realize how close to home that would affect me.  That exact same night, after leaving work, I noticed an empty chip bag laying on the ground outside of where I work. I Read This Posty »

Dear Mayor Newsom: Two things I believe to be important for the city: First, it seems San Francisco is getting filthier.  I am embarrassed by the detritis littering our streets.  I can't imagine the impression the many tourists in SF take back to their homes.  Both Chicago and New York are much cleaner than SF.  Chinatown is especially horrific.  There is a terrible stench on some of the streets, there is trash and filth everywhere and there are clothes hanging from balconies, which is especially unsightly and completely unnecessary.  Cigarette butts line every block and not just in Chinatown.  It would not Read This Posty »

People do not pick up after their dogs.  I see dropping all around the neighborhood. People who party sometimes can't hold down their liquor so sometimes I see vomit on the street (once right on my front steps).  And tipped over garbage containers and news stands, flowers pulled out of their containers. Name Withheld Read This Posty »

I would like to see the trash containers along Market Street and other major street emptied more frequently, especially near fast food restaurants.  It looks horrible to see garbage overflowing onto the sidewalk.  Please give me a telephone number to call to advise of such a problem. Carol Goldberg Read This Posty »

Now it's the filthiest.  I supported you in your last election.  But that was then.  There are no garbage pails in this city -- so no wonder people drop their trash in the street.  There is no enforcement of laws requiring shopkeepers to keep the area in front of their shops clean -- and those that do, do so by sweeping the trash down the street. I'll support you again when you give me a reason for doing so. You've got a few months left.  So let's see some results.   Michelle Read This Posty »

Litter and un-tended-to trees on Mason between Malvina and Clay -- overturned garbage cans on Malvina.   Owners should be held accountable & responsible. Judy Keyes Read This Posty »