Aaron Best visited Burnaby earlier this week and he was appalled at what he saw.
Best, who tweets from the @mrbestrealty account and works in the real estate/property management industry out of Vancouver, came to South Burnaby for an open house.
What he saw was Burnaby’s dumping problem in full view. Best tweeted out eight photos of furniture dumped on local streets in the City in the Park neighbourhood. (Scroll through some of them above.)
“All of this furniture was left to rot within a block of each other,” Best tweeted.
Best said he tweeted the pics because he wants to show people the extent of the problem.
“Time to start taking people’s pictures and naming and shaming them on social media,” he tweeted, adding that taxpayers end up footing the bill for this behaviour.
According to a story the NOW did on city-wide illegal dumping in 2018 some of the hot-spots for dumping in Burnaby are at Barnet Highway and Cariboo Road, 18th Street and 11th Avenue, Venture Street and Lake City Way, and in cul-de-sacs at Manchester Drive, and off Cardston Court, and Horne Street. The City of Burnaby is using cameras in some of these locations to catch dumpers.
If you have large items like couches, mattresses or appliances, call the city to arrange for pick-up, at 604-294-7972. Drywall and other construction materials can be dropped off for a fee at the New West Gypsum Recycling at 38 Vulcan St. in New Westminster.
