Comments (0) It’s Thursday night, trash night in White Oaks. And bonus: it’s also recycling night.
As usual, the scavengers were out in force this evening, and below is a photo of one. Anyone know who she is?
Trash Scavenger in White Oaks
Trash scavengers ride through White Oaks neighborhood
On Thursday nights in White Oaks, groups of scavengers rifle through your trash and recyclables, frequently looking for cans they will take for the redemption value. They’re at work before dark. And since there were 2 identity theft cases reported to the police between June 6 – July 6, perhaps some of these scavengers are obtaining this information from your trash.
A reader passed along a photo of two scavengers in action on July 9. They’re getting very clever now: one uses a kiddie bike trailer to haul his loot.
The police will respond to your call about the scavengers, but it get a lower priority depending on other calls.
It turns out that the illicit trash collectors who are grabbing plastics and aluminum cans from our recycle bins are depriving our cash-strapped city of revenue, and in the process stealing tax dollars from every one of us. They may also be keeping the city from meeting a state requirement to recycle at least 50 percent of our waste, since we’ve only managed to recycle 48 percent–just a smidgen short of the objective.
By now, most of us in White Oaks who diligently put out our recyclables for pickup by Allied Waste have come across the nightcrawlers who prowl the streets by bike, wagon or pickup truck to filch trash before the legal scavenger teams arrive the next morning. Sometimes they leave a mess. Sometimes they boldly panhandle residents, as one did to me a few weeks ago.
The bottom line is that once the recycles are placed on the curb, they belong to Allied Waste, and therefore taking them is legally a theft. Allied has a contract with San Carlos and 11 other cities on the Peninsula to pick up trash and manage the San Carlos collection center. From the recyclables that are redeemed, San Carlos gets a share of the revenues.
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It’s Thursday night, and at least 2 scavengers are making their way through a neighbors’ trash night now.
As the police department mentioned at our meeting last week, residents should be careful that nothing with personal identifying information is in their trash. And to call the police when we see scavengers. (Done.)
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