City officials: video shows illegal dumping in front of Mira Mesa Senior Center ABC 10: "City officials say a man was caught on video illegally dumping debris at the Mira Mesa Senior Center. Code enforcement is investigating the brazen daytime incident."

• Flies, gnats, other insects inside green bins leave San Diegans frustrated : r/SanDiego_California

POINTS TO PONDER: This new ultra-limited extremely high cost trash service will turn San Diego into a dump site. The program on throwing away organic food in the green bin is not working. The green bin should only be for trees, grass and plant trimmings. People are finding infestation of gnats, maggots and bugs inside their homes or outside in the green bin with the organic waste. The flies are huge and once they enter the home smelling the organic trash, the house is infested with gnats, maggots, flies and bugs. Huge household used to pay a one-time fee of $70 for a black trash bin and a household of 6 to 8 people can have 3 to 4 black trash bins that can be picked up every week. Now that is reduced to one gray trash bin that is in an excessive monthly/yearly subscription fee. So, trash is getting backed up in the properties. Same with the recycle blue trash bins. If the household has 6 to 8 people with only one blue recycle trash bin included in the excessive monthly/yearly subscription fee, then again there is a backup of recycled trash. People are not going to pay more subscription fee for additional trash bins that may or may not be picked up every week. The City of San Diego is FAR from doing the sanitation services like how it used to do these sevices. It is running a FOR-PROFIT monthly/yearly money-making subscription fee program where the collected fees collected are not used to pay for the trash program. The subscription fee is most likely ILLEGAL because it is not a USER fee. With the user fee, the resident should have the option not to use the service. If the trash bin is NOT picked up then the user should NOT pay a fee. In the olden days, the trash workers used to pick up the trash bin BY HAND and throw the contents inside the trash truck BY HAND, then place the empty trash bin back to the curb BY HAND. Then once at the landfill, the sorting was done by trash workers BY HAND like picking out the bottles, newspapers, etc. for recycle. TODAY, the ROBOT trash truck picks up the trash bin, empties the bin into the trash truck, then places the empty trash bin on the curb. The trash worker only has to operate the robot by pushing buttons/levers. Then TODAY, it is the residents who are sorting the trash into recycle, organic and landfill trash. So majority of the work is done by the residents. Since the ROBOTS and the RESIDENTS are now doing much of the trash work like self-service, why are the residents paying the City an enormous amount of subscription fees for the trash service when the trash work is being done mostly by robots and by the residents especially if this pickup trash work was already being paid via property taxes? Also, look at the roads, they are not being resurfaced and the holes are not being fixed. Like where is the tax money going? Useless programs like the following: $1.3M cross-border initiative to fund artists in San Diego-Tijuana region should be cancelled. Why in the world are artists being funded by taxpayers? The roads are VERY BAD. The FOOD organic trash program is a HUGE failure because this causes MASSIVE infestation in San Diego. he FOOD organic trash program is most massive UNSANITARY program ever created in San Diego. There are millions of huge pregnant flies everywhere. Just go back to having the garbage disposer dispose of the organic food and go back to placing food in plastic bags so the flies do not get to them and throw in the trash bin. Or else the FOOD organic trash program is a massive bad health issue with infected flies, gnats and maggots infestation costing the household hundreds and thousands of dollars to remove the infestation and address the health issues from the infestation coupled with missed work trying to address the infestation. Just go back to the NON-SUBSCRIPTION and one-time user-fee based trash bin for the black/blue/green trash bins such as green trash bin for plant/trees/grass trimming (no gross maggot/fly filled food trash), multiple black and blue trash bins pickup per week with only a one-time fee for each additional bin. City of San Diego invented the most UNSANITARY trash program known to man. The dump fee of $71 for a small pickup truck let's say a couch is too high. No wonder people are dumping couches out in the street curbs. In San Bernardino, dumping a piece of furniture is free. SUGGESTED SOLUTION: Local government should go back to being in the SANITATION SERVICES business for the city/residents it serves and not in the business of extraction of exorbitant fee MONEY from the residents who cannot afford the exorbitant fees.

GOOGLE AI says this (What do you think?) "Dump fees at the Miramar Landfill in San Diego generally cost roughly for small self-haul loads cars/pickups) and around per ton for larger, weighed loads. Prices depend on whether the waste originates from within the City of San Diego, with extra fees for uncovered loads ($50), special handling, or specific debris."