The Danbury Unified Neighborhood Inspection Team followed a complaint Tuesday to the hillside between Fairfield Ridge and Putnam Drive where they found bags of household trash littering the hillside.
"We put on our gloves and we dug in," said Rich Antous, the downtown coordinator for the UNIT, which fights trash and blight in Danbury. "The name in the bag down there was the same name on the bag up here."
Antous, UNIT Coordinator Shawn Stillman and Danbury Police Officer Ken Utter were planning on giving the homeowner who threw out the garbage a $219 littering ticket.
"That's the price of seven months of trash service," Stillman said. "What is household garbage disposal? Thirty dollars a month?"
Antous said this is what the UNIT does.
"It's a lack of caring for your city, for your neighbors and for your family," Antous said.
We expect the owner of the garbage will be picking it up later today, Stillman said.
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