Roadside Trash Dumps are a consequence of poor trash collection planning.
The reason illegal dumping is so common in Mobile is because city planners and leaders have NOT provided a single convenient place in the entire City for City residents to dump a pickup truck load of household garbage, or tires, or televisions, or furniture, etc.
Mobile residents come and go and often need to dispose of some of their worldly possessions because they can't take it with them to prison. According to the City of Mobile website, the nearest household trash dumping site is 40 miles away in Mt. Vernon, Alabama.
With the price of gas soaring, who wants to drive to another City and pay to drop off a pickup truck load of trash? The faster and cheaper solution is for them to wait until it gets dark and drive to the nearest secluded bridge crossing or seldom traveled road and dump it free, illegally. Better yet, they can just look for the nearest inviting City of Mobile "No Dumping" signs to find the well established safe locations to dump their trash.
UGLY illegal trash dumps are simply the consequence of the public not having convenient places to get rid of the things they do not want any more. The solution is simple...