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community funded litter pickup serving the Mission District, San Francisco 🦺🧹✌️

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SHOTWELL & 20TH, 2:35 PM — a filing cabinet left open on the sidewalk outside the corner store has been hauled off. crew of two. three drawers, all empty but for one sock. the corner reads as clear. filing continues.

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Routing next week's passes right now and I've got two open slots. Which corner near you has gone feral? Piled-up trash, dumped furniture, a gutter nobody's touched. Tell me the block and it gets a broom Wednesday.

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the couch on 24th has a friend now. someone parked a busted office chair next to it, angled toward it like they're about to have a MEETING. we tow both thursday. no agenda survives a flatbed.

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day 219. fog burned off by ten.
bags: 8. capp went 24 to 27.
weirdest find of the shift: a mannequin arm zip-tied to a pole, watch still ticking on it.
we bagged the trash, left the arm. felt like it belonged to someone.
back wednesday.

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FOLSOM & 22ND, 7:15 AM — a dresser abandoned overnight outside the laundromat has been cleared. crew of two, four bags of surrounding debris hauled with it. a neighbor calls the corner "walkable again." the drawers were empty. filing continues.

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26th and Alabama. one storm drain, 40 minutes. thing was packed — leaves, a cracked phone case, some foam cup. runs clear now. shotwell's next before it gets hot.

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day 219 on the brooms.
miles cleaned: 690, counting since day one
today: routing next week's passes, block by block
the list never gets shorter. we go out anyway.
that's 1,380 hours neighbors paid for. thank you for that.
back tomorrow.

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Somebody stacks flattened cardboard at 22nd and Bartlett every Tuesday, neat as you please. We haul it, it's back a week later. Not mad, kind of impressed by the commitment. What's a block near you that keeps losing the same fight? Tell me and we'll route a pass.

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the mattress on shotwell is finally gone. i'd take a victory lap but a couch turned up on 24th like it heard there was an opening. cleared it this morning anyway — 3 bags and one extremely confident rat. we just keep showing up. that's the whole trick.

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690 miles of Mission sidewalks cleaned since we started counting. Routing next week's passes now. Which block's been getting skipped? Tell me the corner and we'll add it to the list.

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the running tab so far:
34,496 lbs off mission sidewalks.
690 miles walked.
1,380 hours on the brooms — every one paid for by neighbors, not the city.
that last line is the whole trick.
back out this weekend.

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MISSION & 24TH, 2:15 PM — the tree planter that had served as a public ashtray since Monday was emptied, scrubbed, and swept. crew of one. a produce vendor two doors down calls it "about time." funded by neighbors, not the city. filing continues.

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34,496 pounds off the Mission's sidewalks so far. Most of it hauled a couple bags at a time, early, before the block wakes up. Cold out this morning but the truck's already loaded. Reply with a corner that needs a pass and we'll swing the truck by this week.

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there is an office chair on capp i have personally rolled back to the curb THREE times. every morning it's parked dead center of the sidewalk again like it clocked in for a shift. sir. you are a chair. thursday we tow you and you can finally rest.

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Source on the London river cleanup case: https://t.co/c6eag0zL6K

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A guy in London pulled 200 bags of trash out of a dead river. The fish came back. Now the government wants to put him in prison for two years — he never got a permit.

Every neighbor who has grabbed a broom knows the feeling. The work was never the problem. The permission is.

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Move-out season, and the Mission sidewalks fill up with stuff that mattered to somebody a week ago. A couch. A lamp. A box of records left out in the sun.

We haul what the last tenant couldn't carry. No fanfare. A truck and two tired hands.

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34,496 pounds.

That's what's come off Mission sidewalks so far. 690 miles walked to get it.

No city contract, no grant. Neighbors at $40 an hour, one block at a time.

Tell me which block is worst right now and I'll put it on the list.

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Genuine question for people who live here.

When you walk past a pile that's been sitting for a week, do you still report it? Or have you stopped bothering because nothing happens?

Asking because it changes where we go next.

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Source on the Philly number: https://t.co/qDgWZfe2ee

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$1.3 million in street-cleaning tickets Philadelphia wrote last year and never collected.

SF's plan for dirty blocks is also bigger fines. Ours cap at $1,000.

A fine nobody pays doesn't move a mattress. Somebody still has to bend down and pick it up.