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Monday, April 14, 2014

Mounds Of Trash Take The Bloom Off Cherry Blossom Festival

A German au pair in a green sundress stopped across the street from the Washington Monument on her way to the cherry blossoms Sunday and posed for a photograph with the garbage.

“Why don’t they take the trash away?” asked another au pair, Alexandra Ratzinger of Austria.

Plastic-foam lunch containers. A Ritz Crackers box. Rubber gloves. Empty 24-packs of Deer Park water. A Sprite can. A Starbucks cup. Milk crates. Commercial-size boxes of frozen Big-C Premium Select three-eighth-inch straight-cut french fries. All belching forth from, dumped around and cartoonishly piled over a couple of overmatched receptacles as if in some kind of Dr. Seuss book. From one side, the blue and brown cans were no longer visible beneath the crush.

“That’s ridiculous,” said Camaran Pipes, a project manager who stopped along the gravel path from the teeming Smithsonian Metro station to snap a picture of the pile. “This is the nation’s capital!”
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wondered the same thing until I realizes that removing the trash while a million plus people are there would be extremely hard to do. There was so much trash that only large trash trucks would be able to collect the piles. Waiting until the crowds dispersed was a wise decision

Anonymous said...

Gov'ment trash workers don't work on Sundays. Have to wait for Monday....