Someone Else's Trash in Your Container: Illegal Dumping, Scavenging, and Who the Summons Names

Waste you did not generate turns up in your container, and bags you tied shut get torn open at the curb. Both problems cost tri-state facilities money and compliance exposure, and both are addressed with a mix of timing, containment, documentation and liner specification rather than with argument after the fact.

There are two versions of this morning. In the first, a porter opens the enclosure at the start of a shift and the container is already full, and nobody on staff can account for more than half of what is in it. In the second, bags that were tied shut and set out the night before are open on the sidewalk, their contents fanned across the pavement, and the first person with a clipboard who walks past does not care who opened them. Both situations share a feature that makes them unusually frustrati...

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