There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who put their trash cans back like clockwork and those who leave them out for days.<\/p>\n
Fort Lauderdale is hoping steeper fines will motivate that second group to wheel the carts back where they belong.<\/p>\n
First-time violations will trigger a written warning, with escalating fines for repeat occurrences: $50 for a second violation; $100 for a third; and $150 for a fourth violation and beyond.<\/p>\n
Those who contest the fine and lose will pay an extra $75 to cover administrative fees.<\/p>\n
The problem is among the top five most frequent concerns reported by residents citywide, according to an email blast sent to residents this week.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople do get upset,\u201d Commissioner Steve Glassman said. \u201cIt\u2019s not a big ask to expect people to put them back where they belong. People don\u2019t want the clutter. Maybe this is a tough love way of going about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here are the rules:<\/p>\n
Remove carts from the roadside on the same day as collection.<\/p>\n
Place carts curbside by 7 a.m. on your scheduled collection day, but no earlier than 6 p.m. the night before your scheduled pickup.<\/p>\n
Place carts at least 2 feet from other carts, cars, mailboxes, trees, storm drains and utility poles. Never place your cart in a bike lane.<\/p>\n
Clean your cart periodically with water and mild, phosphate-free soap.<\/p>\n
Keep all trash inside the cart with the lid completely closed.<\/p>\n
Store your cart behind the street-facing building line or screen it from public view.<\/p>\n
Residents can report violations by calling Fort Lauderdale\u2019s 24-hour Customer Service Center at 954-828-8000.<\/p>\n
Susannah Bryan can be reached at sbryan@sunsentinel.com. Follow me on X @Susannah_Bryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who put their trash cans back like clockwork…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[28,249,251,250,114,266,109],"class_list":["post-401523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}