Woody Hodgson, who is handling the yahoo groups list, writes the following:

Woody Hodgson, who is handling the yahoo groups list, writes the following:

In my daily bicycle trips I’m seeing all over the city mountainous piles of unseparated trash building into health and fire hazards and even road hazards on the narrow neighborhood streets. People are taking advantage of the earthquakes to now empty their residences not just of quake-damaged goods but also of all the things that were too troublesome to dispose of in the past–analog TVs, old bedding, furniture, appliances, PCs, etc. With organic burnable garbage liberally mixed in as well it’s pretty difficult to expect the sanitation crews on the trucks to try to sort through the messes themselves on designated pick up days. What’s to be done? With whole demolished houses and buildings needing to be disposed of I guess this issue is still on the back burner. But it is seriously worsening and warm weather and rain are going to reduce these accumulations into even more toxic stews. I’m not sure if volunteers can be of help in this, but I think it’s worthy of attention. Is there a plan of any kind? OR..if information is available on this subject, please post a link. Thank you,