Greg, I would suggest contacting your council person. If you live on Adams St, that would be Ken Zalewski who is extremely helpful here on See Click Fix! ken.zalewski@gmail.com

Hi Greg,

I have placed a request with Troy's Department of Public Works to have a trash receptacle placed at that bus stop. I agree with you that there is a garbage problem in certain parts of the city. While I'm not certain that placing garbage cans throughout the city will solve the problem or change inconsiderate people's behaviors, it definitely eliminates the excuse of not having a place to throw away the garbage.

Billie-Jean, thank you for pointing Greg in the right direction.

Also, for city issues, it's best to contact me at zalewski@troycitycouncil.com.

Greg, feel free to e-mail me to brainstorm on ideas to cut down on the garbage problem.

Sam, I'd rather not blame a particular group, especially since I'm not quite sure how you identify a "welfare scumbag". Do these individuals have signs on them that make it clear?

I also don't think it's productive to say that the trash is "just how Troy is. Get used to it." The time it took you to write that could have been time spent on developing a plan for addressing the issue. The City cannot monitor every street every second of the day.

It's up to residents to take pride in their neighborhoods and build the type of community that makes it embarrassing and shameful to litter. The city must be a partner in that effort.

I'm not giving up hope, and you should not either. It only becomes "just how Troy is" if we do not use our energy and creativity to change things.

Sometimes it just helps to hang a bag out on a Tree or post for people to throw their 'stuff' in until a trash can be placed there, or a small can of your own for Trash. It is a funny thing too, when people see trash thrown all over the place they just 'add' to it, but most generally when they see a place, (house) area nice and clean they look for a place to throw it thinking that is where everyone else disposed of their things.

It's easy to identify the welfare scumbags. They're the people you see hanging out on a stoop, walking (or riding a bicycle) around on weekdays between 9 am and 5pm (when everyone else is working) carelessly dropping trash wherever they feel like.

I wonder what % of Troys population is receiving some form of government assistance. I bet it's far greater than other nearby cities. How can we find out?

The only way to make them stop littering is for the police to start issuing tickets with fines. Asking them to stop won't work. This class of people do not feel shame or get embarrassed. They're entitled afterall!

Wherever businesses are there is likely to be more garbage I've found, around stores even around the old Nursing Home I live by "The Springs" people just drive by and think nothing of discarding out their auto windows, also by the Menands Bridge area. If we could enforce or help enforce Troy's litter laws by giving license numbers to our community police and they could just make a phone call regarding littering fines/laws that may discourage. We need a way to enforce..our neighborhood groups are ready and able to assist in any way, we already clean up the area's constantly but if we can't control to some extent it's not fair for us to be servents to people who litter "ILLEGALLY". The law is on the books must be some way to enforce it? Putting trash can's in high litter area's can't hurt as long as they are emptied. Whenever we see children in the neighborhood littering we ask them to pick it up and I've even shown them where my garbage cans are and offered them at any time to discard anything they need to in them, they have all been willing to do this so far and I always point out to respect our area we all live in.

GOOD LUCK on the garbage can I called the city to ask for a can in front of my house,
I call every two months, Told them I would empty it. I live on fourth street where my front porch is used as a bus stop I tell people every day to get of the porch when I come home cause its NOT A BUS STOP I have to clean front everyday cause people think its a bus stop waiting place then leave their garbage when bus comes THREE YEARS NOW STILL LOOKING INTO THE MATTER MR CAMPBELL