Sharing Your Junk

I’ve noticed a trend. A most disturbing trend in our area.

It’s called dumping.

A Facebook friend posted a picture of a disgusting mattress and furniture left behind the CDC in Fairfield. It wasn’t remotely usable. It wasn’t put there to help someone. It was moved there, probably under the cover of darkness, to become somebody else’s problem.

Then, only a few days later, I nearly hit a chair and a sofa along the rural roads south of town. Five or so miles later, another chair along the roadway.

I don’t think the furniture fell off the back of a truck. This stuff was left to pock the countryside. This trash was left by trash.

Don’t dump on the rest of us. If you live in the city, the paper tucked inside my new garbage container said the new company contracted for regular garbage pick-up will pick-up your discarded furniture on a monthly basis.

That’s the adult way to deal with the issue.

We often talk about what it will take to get Fairfield looking better. It is an important discussion which is in the cross hairs of the city council.

But moving your junk to force the CDC to expend resources…or leaving it along the roadway outside of town…only shows your lack of personal responsibility.

Use your Lazy Boy…

...or have it hauled to the dump. It’s the class thing to do.