ORLANDO, Fla. — Residents in an Orlando neighborhood said they’re fed up with unwanted newspapers on their driveways.
“What happens is people just drive back and forth over them on their way to work or on their way home, and they become like paper-mache. They’re there long enough, they go into the gutters and wash down into the lakes,” said Dennis Jenkins, president of the neighborhood association for Lake Como.
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Jenkins said he tried to contact the Orlando Sentinel, the source of his much unwanted driveway debris.
Be he said the papers don’t stop coming.
“The Sentinel seems to have no control over people dumping trash in people’s driveways,” Jenkins said.
Other communities, like Altamonte Springs and Winter Garden, have recently adopted ordinances to stop the practice.
Channel 9 reporter Steve Barrett asked Orlando leaders if there are any similar plans in the works, but his calls were not returned.
“I don’t like to create controversy or put more on commissioner Sheehan's shoulders or Mayor Dyer’s shoulders, but I think it would be a good way to stop polluting our neighborhoods,” Jenkins said.
Residents said the unwanted papers come twice a week.