What would you suggest that people use for trash? Plastic liners line the cans, but most people tie the bag, lift it from the can and place the bag full of trash on to the street (to avoid trashcans from disappearing). What are the alternatives?

BZZZZZ...wrong.

PUT OUT TRASH IN PROPER CONTAINERS
Place all trash in personal trashcans or sealed plastic bags, filled only to the 40-pound limit.

http://www.phila.gov/STREETS/trash_collection.html

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The fool that wrote that ordinance should be slapped. Trash belongs in a can!

Just do what I tell you the city won't be such a dump.

My neighbors got me a few tickets. Confronted the neighbors and left unreturned messages to the landlord. But the trash continued to pile-up on no-trash days. I started working with the Streets department and they issued a few tickets to the landlord of the building who was causing the problem and educated them a bit, too. Hasn't been a problem since.

The good people in the SWEEP program are great to work with:

http://www.phila.gov/STREETS/sweep.html

Yeah, Ok.

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so the poster's master plan was to move to Philly, leave his trash out until he got ticketed, and than complain about it on Phillyblog. Is that what you think? You sound like the type of bitter old busybody who steal balls from playing children, ostensibly because they are making too much noise, or playing in *you're* street, but in actuality it's because you can't stand the sound of children's laughter.

I'm bringing this up again because someone put another trashbag in front of my house this morning and since it rained before they put it (they did not seal the bag), it was such a hassle to clean up this morning that I was actually late to work today.

This has happened 3 or 4 times after I first posted and I really did not bother before because I would just pick up the bag and put it on my trashcan and be done with it in less than a minute but this is getting ridiculous.

Can anybody help me on how to stop this? I was thinking of a) getting a webcam to try to see who is doing this, and b) filing a police report for vandalism, but I don't know if anything would help.

You can try filing an online complaint at http://www.ppdonline.org/rpts/ - on the left you'll see a section for Sanitation. Good luck!

Eagles, have you ever complained about the trash to anyone?
I made the mistake of saying something about all the trash in the street to the people on my block and so to be funny, they intentionally leave pieces of trash in front of my house. Not big bags of it though.
I get grrred sometimes about it but then I see it for what it is. They're just having fun with me. It's what I get for opening up my mouth.