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Richmond’s unhoused are uniting to fight illegal dumping

By Sasha Hupka | October 5, 2020
Sean Thomas carries an abandoned bucket to trash cans set up outside the encampment where he lives in Richmond. Thomas is one of several employees working on SOS! Richmond’s Streets Team, and said police officers told him they have “noticed improvement” since the group started operating in the area. Credit: Sasha Hupka/Richmond Confidential

Richmond is notorious for illegal dumping and litter, a decades-long problem driven by private and commercial interests looking for places to offload their trash for free. A group of unhoused people are working to tackle the problem while creating better living spaces at local encampments.

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Richmond uses surveillance cameras to tackle illegal dumping

By Nancy DeVille | September 24, 2013 | 1

The city installed two state-of-the-art cameras at known littering hot spots, and they are working. Illegal dumping ceased at those locations. Officials want to add more cameras in hopes of catching illegal dumpers in the act or discouraging them all together.

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