ALCOA, Tenn. (WATE) — The City of Alcoa is asking residents for help to keep their community clean. With illegal dumping on the rise, the public works department is asking citizens to report sightings of trash to the city.
“Some of those items shouldn’t be there. Some of them come from outside the city, and ultimately, we’re trying to limit what those things are because all of it goes to the landfill and the city ends up paying the bill for that,” said the City of Alcoa Director of public works and engineering, Shane Snoderly.
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Snoderly said illegal dumping is when non-residents dump trash either on someone’s property or on the side of the road, and while residents aren’t the problem — they’re footing the bill.
“The city residents pay the tipping fee when it goes to the landfill, and so it’s costing our citizens money when people bring those things in,” he said…