Rant about people not respecting the trash bag laws

Since COVID, I have seen people going absolutely mad with the trash management in my commune (around Lausanne). People are taking measures that baffle me each time I see to avoid paying for taxed bags. There is a total of 1 trash can in my neighborhood. This trash, as early as saturday morning, is overflowing with stuff people bring from their homes (have seen people bring it in Migros carts because there was so much stuff!!!!!!!)

By saturday night, there is trash being put on little paper bags around the trash can (as there is no more space inside), and you can find absolutely anything in them: packages, old food, empty bottles, etc. I've even seen some uni students drop their trash in a little garden that we have for families to plant their vegetables. Since the trash collectors don't pass until monday, we are forced to live in a city that is covered in trash (heaven forbid it's windy, the trash will go everywhere and never be picked up). Some pieces of trash have been in hidden areas and a river nearby for months now. I'm not even gonna get started on the teenagers who just leave their empty food wraps, drinks around (and never get picked up by the city workers). If I didn't regularly pick up after themselves, this place would be even nastier than it already is.

We have recently received a message from the commune saying that if this stuff doesn't stop, we will all have to pay for a higher trash tax in the city. If you are one of the hundreds of people that do this: you are not above the law and you are not cheating the system, all you are doing is making all of us pay for your selfishness.