DC Wants YOU To Lug
This Through Your Home

It ain't pretty is it?

Or good for the floors,

Or easy on your walls,

Or your back

But that's exactly what the DC Council and Mayor Bowser want you to do.

Or you will be fined.

OK, nobody passed a specific law.  The Law of Unintended Consequences kicked in and council person Brooke Pinto doesn't seem to care.

Here's how this silliness got started

If you live in a historical district you've gotta keep the cityscape looking like it did years ago.  For most of us that's the early 1900's.  Back then, kitchens and trash were in the back.  And trash was picked up from the alley.

There's a whole historical apparatus in DC government to make sure we toe the historical line.  You can count on getting a fine for putting a jeweled chrome door on your Victorian bay-front or a shelter to hide trash cans.

Meanwhile in another compartment of the DC governance, larger trash trucks were endorsed for a whole host of reasons including new trash hauling contracts.