Drivers in and around the Crescent City have long complained of abandoned tires, garbage, and other debris along roadways. It’s become a persistent and ever-visible problem for the region. New Orleans City Councilmember Eugene Green joined WWL’s Tommy Tucker to discuss illegal dumping in New Orleans and what can be done to alleviate the problem going forward.
“Sometimes it’s hard to grasp what’s going on because it’s so simple. There are criminals who have been paid to haul away matter and refuse by landlords, people who own tire shops, etc who simply don’t want to spend the money that they’ve made to properly dispose of it. So, they find a dark area off of some street or behind some neighborhood, maybe under the interstate where they think they can get away with it, and they dump (things) there,” Green explained.
In one alarming instance, a load of illegally dumped tires actually blocked in postal workers. “I got a call at 8am saying someone had dumped something illegal on a street between Dowman Road and the post office, so the people in the post office couldn’t get out,” Green told WWL’s Tommy Tucker…