At the end of a full day of visitors at Dolores Park on Saturday, the lawns were in pretty good shape and most of the trash had been picked up, but that changed later at night after dozens of revelers celebrated July 4th. By 6 a.m. today the park was awash in trash.
“This has to stop,” said the supervisor cleaning up the trash.
There were plenty of half empty trash cans – the east side of the park is nearly paved in trash cans. The problem was that few bothered to use them. So early this morning folks from the SF Mime Troupe and the homeless who may have stayed overnight in the park helped the work crew clean up.
That’s because people don’t have the good breeding or decency to take out their trash. Leave your trash anywhere and don’t assume responsibility for it is the way to go.
I was there after work on Friday and had a messy food container and no place to throw it out. There was not a single trash can. Walking around up the public street with a sticky plastic thing made me realize why people litter. Unless trash cans are added to the park, it’s unrealistic to ever expect a clean park. At least on the old side we had cans, even if they were always overflowingly full.
Why is the $1 million dollar Dolores Park North Field brown instead of green?
Is the City not watering the grass because of the drought?
manors and courtesy cannot be legislated, the problem is the entitled children who live in the “me” only world of themselves. Fines, heavy fines will make an impression.
I’t be be good to keep this in perspective. Dolores Park is a busy place in a bubbling city.
Were a reporter or resident to walk Mission Street early on Sunday morning and similarly take pictures of trash left behind, it would probably look worse then what is shown in these shots of Dolores Park. Busy places in a city are going to need cleaning.
What other policies are needed? Should the proper response to trash, vandalize, and graffiti on Mission Street be to close the Street, as has bee suggested for Dolores Park Or should policing and punishment stepped up to Singapore levels.
I’ve been using the DPClean Dolores Park clean twitter handle since April 2010
Apparently it takes a lot a trash to have a good time. I went to the Mime Troupe show yesterday and was dismayed to discover no trash cans of any sort in or around the northwest quadrant of the park. The only trash receptacles are the huge dumpsters on Dolores. Very annoying. I can understand the thinking behind taking the trash cans away (they cause overflow trash). But park officials have to do more to engender a “pack-it-in-pack-it-out” ethos among the denizens. As this weekend shows, it’s not going to happen spontaneously. A dumpster or two over by the new bathrooms wouldn’t hurt.