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‘This is an Uber. Not a…trash truck’: Lyft driver picks up rider with bags. Then he realizes where she’s going
A viral TikTok from a Philadelphia Lyft driver claims residents are resorting to rideshares to drop off trash at dump sites as the city’s municipal worker strike leaves garbage collection suspended.
The impact of the DC 33 strike depended on where you live, forcing Philadelphians to get creative with their trash management
About 950,000 of Philadelphia’s 1.57 million residents live more than a half-mile from the nearest trash drop-off site.
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City moves trash collection sites as images of garbage pileups go viral
Shortly after the city announced 63 temporary sites for residents to drop off garbage while municipal workers strike, ...
This Town Started Charging for Trash by the Bag. Here’s What Happened
“It virtually cut waste in half,” Rob Firlotte, Plympton’s highway superintendent, said of the results. In 2022, before the ...
Communities work to clear out garbage as trash collectors' strike continues in Massachusetts
Due to the garbage collectors' strike, some Massachusetts communities are coming up with temporary solutions to clear out the ...