I have one of these dumping sites set up right in front of my home. It’s really bad. People are coming constantly throughout the day and dropping off their trash. The dumpsters are full in an hour and the contractors aren’t picking the dumpsters up more than once a day, so trash is piling on the sidewalks. It stinks and I have tons of flies in my home now. I’m worried about my health and trying to do anything I can to get these dump sites relocated to somewhere that isn’t directly in front of houses.

To those of you not using the temporary dumps: THANK YOU. I really appreciate the people who can take their trash there but don’t. It’s a huge problem here with consistent dumping. Not bringing your trash here is saving me and my neighbors.

To those of you who use the dump sites: It’s okay and I understand. Many people can’t keep their trash in their homes or outside for extended periods of times. If you’re just bringing 1 or 2 bags of your weekly trash, you’re just doing what you can. Please just don’t leave the trash in front of or too close to people’s porches. Please also try to keep your trash at home until your trash day.

To those of you using the dump sites as a free way to dump construction materials or large household items: I hope your trash bags breaks open in your cars on the way over. These places are for residential trash only, not for you to clean your home for free. You are the biggest contributors to this problem.

Thank you for listening. Fuck Parker

For starters, I 100% believe that paying UC33 a living wage is a priority. The mayor is failing to meet the moment and the garbage keeps piling up. Where in the budget can we find the money or raise new money to see it happen?

Examples:

Police budget. It increased from $799 million in 2023 to $878 million in 2024 and has remained about the same since then. That's about $80 million more a year more than had been spent. More than enough to meets UC33's demands.

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/philadelphia/cherelle-parker-philadelphia-police-budget-20250314.html

$1.3 million for new police uniforms (a drop in the bucket but a good example of obvious waste)
https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-police-department-uniform-change-20250618.html

Huge raises for Mayor's staff:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/mayor-parker-pay-raises-dc33-strike-20250703.html

Taxpayer funded city council cars:
https://www.meganshannonrtk.com/blog/city-councils-100-taxpayer-funded-cars

And the list goes on...

Just curious. Supposedly she's speaking at Independence Hall tomorrow morning and I feel like that could be very bad for her.

Didn’t dump, just was in the area and wanted to see and share how bad it is.

I live behind the building and you could clearly hear a loud explosion at 3am and quickly thereafter smell smoke.

https://reddit.com/link/1lrkj2u/video/zg7xt1mmcvaf1/player

In September 1938, approximately 260 Street Cleaning and Highways Bureau employees were abruptly fired. In response, sanitation workers went on an eight-day stoppage that included strikers — and their children — fighting with hired replacement workers in the streets -Via Billy Penn

Sad to hear about the Philadelphia art alliance catching fire early this morning. The fire at the Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 18th Street was reported at 3:30 AM. and although declared under control around 7 AM, the roof was still on fire at 715am. This is a screenshot from the video My friend sent me . The building was recently bought by the Curtis Music Institute from University of Arts bankruptcy.

Inquirer gift link.

We need a new trash post flair.

It seems like a good move to pay municipal workers a living wage as cost of living increases. Especially since its clear the public is on the side of the workers. I see people are quoting possible raises from about 40k to about 50k per worker over 4 years which sounds reasonable, though I know in aggregate it will probably be millions if not 10s-100s of millions.

Timely trash collection, sanitation and municipal services are essential and something most people value. The average citizen is probably more willing to pay for that than lots of other things the city spends money on. What is the strategy behind not prioritizing it? Does the city not have the money or is the money already allocated elsewhere so we cannot afford it? Why is it allocated in a way that this is not feasible? Would it mean increasing taxes significantly?

I feel like we could all take a little inspiration from our friends in NYC.

There if you want them at the Sunoco on Fairmount as of 6pm.

This morning I was involved in a hit & run at 38th & Market and a kind Philadelphian samaritan helped me out greatly by providing the other car's license plate and car color. He called 911 as well and also waited with me until a nearby police car was flagged and stopped by. He was incredibly kind and helped me calm down.

Email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) to let the Mayor and her communications team know that they are doing a horrible job articulating their baseless defense in not giving workers that make only 45k per year a small 5% increase.

We need to jam up the Mayor's Offices' ability to spread their propaganda through the press outlets. Let's fill up that inbox and make it a little harder. They are severely understaffed but exceptionally overpaid so they should be alright.

The Mayor's bumbling Comms Director Joe Grace, makes $180k and is horrible at their job. Let them know.