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by neutronicus 2151 days ago
The city has public trash cans on the corner, with bags in them. So you throw your little baggie of dog shit in it, the city collects the bag, and the dog shit is gone.

My trash bin (large, wheeled, plastic variety that lives in an enclosure on the bottom floor of my building) is full of my domestic trash, in several bags, and is not itself lined with a bag. City comes, empties out my bin, it's now an in-theory empty plastic bin. Someone throws a baggie of dog shit in, it just goes to the bottom. It rains, and now there's a slurry of dog shit water in the bottom of my trash bin and it's there forever because my building doesn't have a hose for me to hose it out, nor is there a designated drain for collecting shit water, nor do the city trash collectors upend the bin into the garbage truck - they just grab the bags out and leave the shit-slurry where it lies.

So my suggestion is ... walk to the fucking city trash can literally a half-block away and throw your dog shit in there instead into a domestic trash bin with no bags in it.

Luckily I'm moving the fuck out of this building / neighborhood in December. Wonder what the other tenants will do when they realize no one is putting the building's bins out now...