Joining forces with Capitol Hill Trash Mob

Today we had the awesome privilege with teaming up with the Capitol Hill Trash Mob for a united attack on trash, litter, and garbage in and around Stadium Armory metro station. Together we filled over well over ten bags. Our group shared some of the underlying reasons why the area collects a lot of litter:

1. The city rarely empties the 3 trash bins (or if they do, only one or two are emptied, never on a regular schedule). Therefore the garbage fills to overflowing, making it difficult to actually put anything in a bin.
2. The grass behind our garden is also not regularly cut by the city, which makes it an attractive location to toss trash.

Our group begins each work time with picking up the trash, so it was fantastic to have others enthusiastically joining us to make the place clean. And we came up with some more strategies to convince the city to do its job.

Another huge accomplishment is that we eliminated a whole patch of weeds, trees, and shrubbery that shouldn't have been there. Thank you so much to those who helped. The photo at the bottom is one of the "before" shots, and as you can see in the top 2 photos, we definitely did some damage.

Way to go, Capitol Hill Trash Mob and Our Stadium Armory Community Garden Crew!