People had already been dumping litter and urinating in the garden, but Ms. Garsia said these problems had worsened because of the center.
He called on the Roma community in Page Hall to change aspects of their "behaviour", such as congregating on the streets on summer evenings and dumping litter, which he said was "aggravating" local people.
The amount of plastic in the seas has increased dramatically since the first record in the 1960s, coming from waste discarded by ships, offshore dumping, litter on beaches and waste washed to sea by rivers.
Her images are the plain facts of the gulf war, the desert as garbage dump, littered with hunks of metal, shell casings, shoes, tartan blankets and the odd file cabinet and scarred with trenches.
Some countries still dump plastic litter into watercourses that carry the material out to sea.
Oddly, though, what stuck with me was the scene in which Brown groggily dumped cat litter instead of detergent into his washing machine, exhausted not from nights peering through high-powered telescopes at Palomar Mountain or Mauna Kea but from waking up to feed his newborn daughter.
I canvassed this area last year as a mayoral candidate and was struck by the illegal dumping and litter everywhere.
Needless to say, it has become a dumping ground, littered with sodden, stinking mattresses and other household detritus.
The area has become a dumping ground littered with both human ruin — a shuttered fish farm, a closed juvenile detention camp and a former rocket test site — and abandoned animals.
He had hoped the court would issue a litter abatement order requiring the local authority to remove litter dumped in Yardley.
