Burlington, VT PLUS

People are dumping yard waste and food scraps in the park. There are several areas along Ethan Allen Parkway where there are little paths into the park (across from Lopes there’s one and another just a short distance towards Sandy Lane) and folks are walking into the park on those little trails and dumping their yard waste and dumping food scraps. They treat the park as if it’s their personal compost pile.

Someone dumped a mattress in the middle of the bike path

Lots of trash dumped in the brush on the northern side of the bike path just before the wooden bridge

Trash dumped everywhere. Seagulls can only eat so much. I will start bring more garbage bags.

Since the desk has not been removed in weeks, there is now a chair dumped there.

Mattress and other large trash items dumped in city owned property

In Leddy Park. On the northwestern side of the soccer fields in the woods close to the big path that goes from the bike path to Thayer

A very large pile of debris, garbage, and assorted other things in the woods

Would it be possible to get a big belly trash can and recycle bins placed near this intersection? With 4 takeout businesses here there is a lot of trash in and around intersection.

Casella is picking up trash at the residential Ruggles House every Friday morning at 5:35am. Isn't this before trash trucks are legally allowed to operate in Burlington's residential neighborhoods? What does the ordinance allow? Anytime after 6:30 am ? I called Casella about this a couple weeks ago but they still arrive too early. Their trash trucks are too loud to be operating that early - people are still trying to sleep. They drive around the horseshoe street - from south to north - passing about 70 houses - and when they reach the north side, they go in reverse up the Ruggles driveway with their beep beep reverse alarm sounding. If they don't comply with city regs then they shouldn't be awarded a contract when consolidation happens. Be sure the contract contains a clause for steep penalties for non-compliance with city regs, including speeding and start times for pick up. Thanks!

broken bench and tons of trash