Rats Do Eat Plastic

Here are a few examples of rats eating plastic - rats have eaten holes into these garbage and recycling cans to get at food inside. Holes like this tell us that there are regular and consistent food sources in the cans - the cans are being left out with garbage in them for extended days. The recycling can with the rat hole indicates that the recycling materials in this can are often not washed very well - if they had been cleaned the rats wouldn't be eating the plastic to get in.

All the photos are in our alley.

Welcome To "My" Alley

Welcome to "my" alley. Just another alley but it is the one I have. This is a relatively clean day in the alley - March 18, 2009 - now March 18, 2009, was a Wednesday so one might wonder why are garbage and recycling cans in the alley when pick-up is Tuesday and Friday?......... perhaps they didn't bring the containers in.. perhaps they have them out early...





This next photo was also taken on a Wednesday, January 20, 2010. Not as clean.... Garbage on the ground to the left and in the middle of the alley as well as trash out in bags rather than all in containers as required by DC law. I think the Tuesday pick up had yet to happen.





And then there is the garbage by the apartment building - hard to tell if it is from the apartment building, illegal dumping or a neighbor too lazy to call for bulk pick-up. Photo taken May 22, 2009.