Ninety-year-old Patricia Russell has lived in West Philly’s Carroll Park neighborhood for much of her life — and in that time she’s seen it go from having lovely clean streets to trash-filled ones.

Russell lives in “the house my parents brought me home from the hospital to,” she says. Her sister lived down the street until she passed away two years ago. They used to talk about how the neighborhood had gotten dirtier. The City often neglects to pick up her recycling, causing neighbors to haul the bins back-and-forth from their alleys to the curb, spilling trash in the process. Pedestrians leave litter all over the neighborhood’s namesake 5-acre park.

“I get out there trying to clean,” she says. “It used to be, when I was growing up, that the sanitation department cleaned the streets. When

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