While improvements are being made to the trash problem around the city, like the increased street cleaning through Ready, Willing & Able in Point Breeze, it is still a huge problem (as a Twitter account dedicated to South Philly trash also points out).
Point Breeze pic from ilovebricks.
Point Breeze Community Development Corporation’s Clean and Green committee is creating a plan for future improvements to the neighborhood and is seeking feedback from nearby residents.
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Trash is scattered around the streets, sidewalks and vacant lots of our city. Things like the spring cleanup, new trash cleaning programs and the potential for city-wide street cleaning are helpful, but they’re still not solving this deeply-rooted trash problem.
@SouthPhilaTrash @BeautifulPHL On S.Broad St. #philthadelphians #southphilthadelphia #keepphiladelphiabeautiful pic.twitter.com/G2qv2KT5MI
— Prep & Foxx Assoc. (@PrepandFoxx) March 23, 2016
One Point Breeze resident is now bringing awareness to this issue with a Twitter page dedicated to sharing photos of the trash in South Philly. Continue Reading →
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UPDATE: The event has been postponed until Saturday, April 16. Find out more here.
While a street cleaning program isn’t happening at the moment, you can still pitch in to make the streets in your neighborhood a bit nicer by cleaning up trash.
Philly Spring Cleanup is bringing together communities throughout the city for a 9th year of this annual cleanup. At this year’s event, there are as many as 30 opportunities in South Philly alone.
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Since the trash problem in the city isn’t going to resolve itself, some organizations are taking action with more regular cleanups, since a bill for a street cleaning program likely won’t be moving forward too quickly.
Litter at 12th and McKean
Passyunk Square Civic Association has had a sidewalk sweeping program for years now. The program is now working to extend east of 9th Street and north of Federal Street.
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