Is this a solution so obvious that it just cannot work?
Let’s see.
Since both enactment and enforcement of a prohibition on polystyrene containers is air-cluttering months away, could an old-fashioned receptacle put the brakes on polystyrene debris litter?
Maybe.
At City Hall, one person’s solution for relief was to string trash cans along Ballona Creek before the polystyrene has a chance to morph into debris and land in the water.
“I don’t know if that is an answer,” said Charles Herbertson, Culver City’s Public Works director.”
“We currently have one trash can that is at (the intersection of) Overland and the bike path.”
“We don’t have trash receptacles currently along the bike path. Something we are looking at, though,” Mr. Herbertson said.
“We are going to see if we can develop a plan.”
Ideally, the Public Works boss said, “we would want to have them distributed every quarter of a mile.”
Like other dimensions of the anticipated polystyrene ban, this aspect is fraught with complications.
Mr. Herbertson explained:
“There are limiting factors. One, the city maintains the bike path. But it is on L.A. County Flood Control District land.
“If you look at the bike path, in many areas it goes where one side butts up against private property. On the other side, it butts up against the slope at the edge of the channel.
“There is no place to put a trash can because it would be in the way of the people using the bike path.”
(To be continued)
