San Francisco is literally overwhelmed by garbage. A story published today by the San Francisco Chronicle reveals that complaints about illegal dumping on the city’s streets had quadrupled over the past decade.

In 2022, the city received over 200,000 trash dumping complaints — more than four times more than a decade ago. In 2012, the city received about 45,000 complaints…
Some of the increase in 311 complaints may be due to the complaint system being easier to use, said Public Works spokeswoman Rachel Gordon, acknowledging that she didn’t want todownplay the challenge of illegal dumping across the city. Still, illegal dumping c …