We’ve all seen it before.
Fast food bags, cigarette butts, loose car parts and other discarded items seemingly sprouting from street corners and roadsides like a stubborn weed.
Though city and community groups have picked up millions of pounds of trash since the pandemic, keeping Tacoma clean has proven to be an ongoing challenge.
Loads of litter
During the first years of the pandemic, when many clean-up efforts were halted, a backlog of trash piled up along Tacoma’s main thoroughfares…