Litter cleanup
Litter Cleanup for Savannah Lots, Curbs and Planting Beds
Wrappers, cups, bottles and windblown paper picked up from the lot, the curb, the verge and the beds, so the ground reads clean again.
Where litter settles on a Savannah lot
Litter does not land evenly. Wind pushes wrappers, cups and loose paper across open ground until something stops them, so the same spots fill up again and again: the line along the curb, the foot of a fence, the base of a hedge and the corner where the lot meets a building wall. Anyone walking a Savannah property can find those lines within a minute.
Storm drain grates and the low edge of a parking lot collect the heavier pieces, like bottles and cans, because rain and runoff carry them there. Planting beds are the third place. A bag or cup that blows into mulch or shrubs stays hidden from the walk but not from the street, and it keeps collecting company until somebody reaches in and clears it.
A grassy verge and curb along a Savannah frontage with the litter picked up and the storm drain grate clear
What a littered property costs to ignore
Litter is a small problem that grows in three directions. Plastic and paper wash into storm drains and slow the water that is supposed to leave the property after a heavy Savannah rainstorm. Food wrappers and half empty cups draw rats, ants and flies to the edges of the lot. And the longer pieces sit, the more they break into smaller bits that are harder to pick up.
Then there is the first impression. A visitor, a tenant or a delivery driver forms an opinion of a property from the curb before anyone says a word. Scattered trash along the frontage says nobody is looking after the place, whatever the building behind it looks like. Clearing the ground is one of the quickest changes a property can make to that first look.
What cleared ground looks like, and how it stays that way
A cleared property is easy to recognize. The curb line is clean down to the gutter, the grates are open, the fence lines and hedge bases show soil or grass instead of wrappers, and the beds hold plants and mulch with nothing foreign in them. Walk the edge of the lot and your eye finds nothing to snag on. That plain, quiet look is the goal.
Keeping it that way is mostly about the spots named above. Litter returns to the same wind lines and corners, so a lot that was cleared last week tends to collect along the same edges this week. Property Treated Properly serves Savannah, Georgia, and anyone with a lot, frontage or bed to keep clear can call 912-225-4576 to talk through what is on the ground.
Property Treated Properly, Savannah, Georgia. Call 912-225-4576.
After the pickup
Once the litter is up, the pile is next
Scattered pieces are one job. Bags, overflow and curbside leftovers are another, and both can sit on the same Savannah property at the same time.
- Trash removal
Bagged trash, bin pad overflow and the things left by the curb.
- Exterior property maintenance
The walks, the beds, the curb line and the lot people see first.
- Send a note about the property
Tell Property Treated Properly where the lot is and what is on the ground.