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2018 articles of interest about illegal trash dumping in Hartford. Apparently this is a common thing!
Hartford Looks to End Illegal Dumping
"From recliners to TVs to sheetrock to just garbage, people illegally pile their trash on the sidewalks and then take off, knowing that someone will eventually come along to clean it up.
"It's businessmen, it's doctors, it's lawyers who own properties who are hiring people to clean their apartments out. Instead of them going to get permits in whatever town they live in, it seems like they take it to Hartford and Hartford will clean it up," said Hartford DPW Superintendent Vernon Matthews."
and this one!!
Hartford Police Nab Man Accused of Dumping 20 Bags of Garbage Alongside Road
"City police have arrested a man accused of illegally dumping more than 20 bags brimming with trash beside a North End road."
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"Peterson, who gave his name to the owner as "Easy," promised he had proper disposal permits and said he could bring the waste to the dump for $300, according to Reginald Freeman, Hartford's fire chief and interim director of public works.
Instead, Freeman said, Peterson pocketed the money and jettisoned the trash from his green pickup at the intersection of Love Lane and Vine Street — the latter being the street Peterson lives on."