Trash tells a story — meet the man trying to clean up Oakland
Illegal dumping in Oakland is not an issue you can deny, if you spend enough time in the city you will be met again and again by sprawling, incomprehensible mountains of trash. Last year, municipal crews in the city of Oakland collected over 7 million pounds of illegally dumped waste from city streets.And that’s just what they cleared, the trash on the streets keeps piling up. KALW’s Arlen Levy went to find out where it’s all coming from, and what’s being done to clean things up.
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