Over the Fence Part 3

I'm still working the area along the river by the Post Office.  One more bag would probably get this area relatively clean.  Now, it's a lot of small stuff like bottle caps and small bits of plastic junk (the kind that birds like to eat.).  A lot of the litter down here I'm sure has washed up from communities further upstream, but not all of it.  Even though you have to crawl over the guard rail to get down here, people do and they leave their stuff.  Up top there is no trash can.  There are ones further upstream and downstream but just far enough to make it a little inconvenient.  I realize that every additional trash can placed in the city adds to the expense because it's just more labor to empty them.  Sometimes though you just have to have additional cans or at least better placement of the cans they already have.  One spot that really bugs me is the corner of Hennepin and First St.  That is the north corner of the Post Office.  There is a bus stop there.  There is no trash can.

I walk by here to get to the river and the shrubs are constantly littered with trash. Occasionally I pick it up. There are usually liquor bottles in the one corner so I'm pretty sure that someone is finding this to be a convenient place to party.  Honestly, I don't know if this is the responsibility of the Post Office or the City of Minneapolis.  Directly across the street is another government building, the Federal Reserve Bank. There is a bus stop on their corner.  There are two trash cans.  Their grounds in front are one of the most well tended and beautiful in all of downtown.