So falling off the bandwagon again and again… and again, each time climbing back up, is a little rough. Especially with this blogging thing. But I will not be deterred! I will continue to clutter this interweb with typed words and pixilated experiences.
So one blatant issue that I’ve noticed in this city is the homeless problem. It’s an ineluctable problem that the city needs to address. I think a city that is incapable of feeding its inhabitants, no matter the scale at which it needs to be done, is failing as a city. You can have glossy chrome buildings and multi-colored apple ads everywhere, but it doesn’t change the fact that city dwellers are accosted once a block for cash. There was even this one moment when the guy stood up and kept repeating “75 cents! 75 cents! For the bus!”.
So I’ve seen these trashcans and I thought that they were built for the homeless. What I believed to be an interesting method of trash collecting and recycling. The image below shows the division between recyclables, which have easy access, and garbage. So that people could take advantage of CRV (California Refund Value), which is an incentive to recycle by paying for recyclables. 5 cents per bottle. Apparently San Francisco signed a law recently that mandated that 75% of San Francisco’s recyclable trash be recycled. BUT they also made it against the law to go dumpster diving. The city recommend you to call the police if you saw someone digging the trash, you call the police immediately… It seems more anti-homeless actually doing anything to help…
But here are some interesting pictues/links that I thought were very interesting. Kinda shook up what I thought to be what homeless was.
The homeless and the internet:
The “River Bank” post is a very interesting read in my opinion:
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