City officials said that over the past two years, Parks and Recreation has issued more than $1 million in fines for illegal dumping, which costs the city about $2 million annually. To address the problem, the city is increasing the number of cameras at known dumping locations.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to encourage people to take a second to think before tossing stuff out,\u201d said Avarisse Crawford, chief of staff for North 10 Philadelphia, an organization that focuses on quality-of-life issues in Hunting Park and East Tioga.\n<\/p>\n
North 10 recently launched a program offering residents $120 vouchers to dispose of trash legally through a partnership with Burns Recycling. \u201cIt\u2019s an incentive to basically say don\u2019t put your stuff here, take this voucher and bring it over to our partners at Burns Recycling,\u201d said Josh Klaris of North 10 Philadelphia. The site accepts all nonhazardous trash, including tires.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope they can find who is doing this and put a stop to this. I\u2019m getting tired of having this because it is a health risk and potentially dangerous,\u201d Kaplan said.\n <\/p>\n
City officials said they plan to announce an illegal dumping task force in the coming weeks to strengthen enforcement efforts. Residents are urged to report illegal dumping by calling 311.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City officials said that over the past two years, Parks and Recreation has issued more than $1 million…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,46124,150816,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-295061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-illegal-dumping","10":"tag-northeast-philadelphia-airport","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115356429457054090","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}