Residential garbage pick up resumes to day and that’s a good thing because Park Slope IS garbageland. Bags and bags of holiday garbage are piling up. Curbs have become mountainous regions of plastic garbage bags.

It’s starting to smell.

Apartment buildings can barely contain the trash in designated receptacles. Small buildings like ours where we bring our own garbage down to the front yard are really out of control. Large contractor bags fill with filled smaller garbage bags.The recycling bins are overflowing

The City suspended garbage and recycling pick-up for a week because the Sanitation Department was too busy dealing with snow. As of today, garbage pick up is back on though recycling will not resume until a later date.

It is up to homeowners and landlords to remove the snow so that garbage trucks have access to curb garbage.

Today’s the day: the clean up continues.

About Xmas trees: On our block trees are standing in snow piles. It’s actually looks kind of cool.

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, the New York City Department of Sanitation, and GreeNYC will be recycling Christmas trees into wood chips. These wood chips are used to nourish trees and plants on streets and gardens citywide. Or, take home your very own bag of mulch to use in your backyard or to make a winter bed for a street tree. The MulchFest will take place on January 8 and 9. Parks will host 35 chipping sites and 35 additional drop-off locations: 70 sites in all!