6,800 monthly requests are being submitted to clean up illegal dumping. Yes, that is an average of 267 calls per day for reporting unacceptable trash on the street. Is it the homeless who are trashing the sidewalk? While it is difficult to identify who exactly are responsible, Public Works and the Recology estimates that majority of the dumping comes from the construction industry. Large trash can be very costly to properly dispose, and general contractors and alike tend to resort to these illegal practices. Help protect the environment by telling Department of Building Inspection to enforce a new legislation.

More than $10,000,000 is being spent every year to combat this situation, just by city of San Francisco alone. This figure will continue to rise if the legislation does not take further measure. These are the money that could have been allocated for fulfilling better purposes such as improving education system, funding hospitals and low-income assistant programs, etc.

Paul Giusti, Recology's regional government and community affairs manager, is calling actions for implementing private surveillance installed in some of the heavily affected area, including District 10 where it sees constant illegal dumping. Public Works is proposing a new legislation that mandates all business owners and contractors to provide verification of disposal receipts to Department of Building Inspection as a condition of the work permits. Requiring these receipts as a proof of proper disposal is crucial to solving this public issue. It takes significant resource to implement a direct solution, but once the funding is approved this implementation can become a reality soon. Tell Department of Building Inspection to take part in implementing this viable solutions and start improving our environment!