Year-Long Trash Heap off Glenwood Avenue is Gone

EAST ATLANTA — For a year, a Waste Management Inc. commercial garbage bin in a parking lot behind a row of empty Glenwood Avenue storefronts, has been stuffed to overflowing.

The bin and its piles of garbage were part of a quality of life video editorial done by East Atlantan Nate Minor Monday, who expressed concern that trash and graffiti in the core Village business district left a negative impression.

By Tuesday, Waste Management came to the lot between Gresham and Joseph avenues and hauled the mess away.

Philip Christiansen, co-owner and manager of the Graveyard Tavern, contacted the company, which has trash service contracts with several businesses in East Atlanta.

He made the company an offer, apparently, it dared not refuse and relayed the results to Minor:

"I was able to get WM out this morning. With the community by my side, I informed them of a Village wide boycott of their services. I also mentioned that it would make a great news story and that if it wasn't removed today, we would proceed full steam ahead. The dumpster is being loaded and hauled off as I'm typing this. It's about time! Glad to be rid of that!"