Letter to the editor: Hide the trash

To the editor:

Here’s the deal: No one in a civilized city should have to look out their front window or sit on their front porch and look at their neighbor’s trash cans. This is the case all across Lawrence.

Two years ago the city rolled out “curb it with blue,” the slogan for our new recycling program. No ordinance was put in place for the proper storage of the trash carts. The city needs to take charge and clean this mess up. New construction should include a screened storage area or garage location for the unsightly carts. Current homes should store the carts out of sight. If need be, the sanitation department should work with home owners (at city expense) to screen these carts.

Taking care of trash is such a basic job of city government, and Lawrence is failing. No one can possibly think that storing trash cans in our front yard is OK.

I’ve made several calls to City Hall, and my request for sanity has fallen on deaf ears. The city’s new catch slogan for its program should be “curb it with blue, and then hide it.”