I recently saw a photo on Facebook's Poubelle Ville de Mobile (Trash Can of Mobile) showing a City of Mobile WAVE Bus Stop that asked, "Where is the garbage can that goes here?"
Here is a photo of a WAVE Bus Stop seen on May 2 along Spring Hill Avenue. It has a garbage can and it still doesn't solve the litter problem. You can see an overflowing trash can, trash on the ground under the trash can, and trash on the ground under the bus stop bench.
Yeah Boy, the City of Mobile sure is getting tough on littering starting with its own bus service.
Why does the WAVE Bus Service use those ridiculously small garbage cans to begin with?
According to City of Mobile Municipal Litter Code, Section 25-42, Litter Receptacles, (c)(3), "Litter receptacles on any premise shall be serviced with such frequency as necessary to prevent spillage from overflow..."
Obviously, the City's WAVE bus stop litter receptacles are not being serviced frequently enough so the WAVE bus service is in violation of Mobile's own Municipal Litter Code.
Will the City of Mobile get tough on littering and issue a citation to the WAVE Bus Service being in violation of the City's Litter Code?
Just go by Bus Stop at 1200 Spring Hill Avenue (Mobile School Board Property) if you want to see a really trashy Bus Stop.
Why the City or the WAVE cannot install some high resolution video cameras around the Bus Stops notorious for being littered to capture the criminals in action and prosecute them and ban them from using the Bus Service is a mystery.
If there is not going to be any deterring consequence to the crime of littering, littering will only become more accepted as a societal norm.