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OAK 311 has received this issue. Your service request ID is #832292. Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.

Yesterday, Aug. 6, the playground and area around the playground was full of trash what was obviously from a group of people having a picnic over the weekend. Trash cans were turned over. Two ladies and myself picked up the trash on the playground and around the two benches so that the children we brought to the playground could play. So disgusting!

Thank you for cleaning up. Sad its fallen on the taxpaying citizens to have keep the city picked up. Our volunteers in the Dimond Dist and Dimond park put in 4 to 8 hours a week dealing with the aftermath or the litterbugs.

The social contract in this city is broken. I am repulsed by trash everywhere. So discouraging.

Sad that citizens don't put their own trash where it belongs.

Our volunteers pick up about 12,000lbs of litter in the Dimond Business dist every year. This does not include Dimond park. The Citys Keep Oakland Clean and Beautiful program supplies us with the tools. We also pay to have litter picked up 5 days a week from donations. If we did not do this we would wadding in trash and litter. Where iare outreach programs to get this cycle of disrespect to the citizens, volunteers and the planet to end???

When my daughter, age 4, once threw a piece of trash out the car window I pulled over, stopped the car and she and I walked back for her to pick it up. This was accompanied by my firm admonishment that she was never to do that again and that we take trash home and put it in our garbage. She never littered again (now age 30).
People need to realize that trash doesn't just disappear (our city does NOT have people whose job it is to pick our garbage off the streets) and that each of us has a responsibility for our own junk. Parents can help, educators can help, ad campaigns can help ("Please, please don't be a litterbug" was an old one). On this feed, though, we are undoubtedly "preaching to the choir".

The City of Oakland addressed this issue on 09/04/2018, service request #832292.

Thanks for fixing this request!