What Alliance Customers Leave Behind After Rumaging Through Our Recycling Bins...

Alliance customers routinely rumage through recycling bins all throughout the neighborhood. Not only do they steal much needed funds from the City of Oakland (and put much of this stolen profit into Alliance's pocket) they leave trash on our sidewalks and streets.

Abandoned Shopping Carts Attract Other Junk (and Crime)...

It starts with one cart. Then another. Then more junk gets piled on. The blight that Alliance customers create simply grows. Alliance knows about this but does nothing to clean up what their customers start. This is an example of the Broken Window theory of how a neighborhood goes into decline. It starts small and grows. Others see the trash and think this is a neighborhood that know one cares about and thinks it's OK to dump more trash.

And it's not just blight. Crime comes along with it. Google "Broken Window Theory" to find out more about this phenomenon.

Alliance Customer Forcing Cars to Drive Against Traffic...

Alliance's Customers Take Over the Streets...

It's a constant parade. Some customers show some respect and share the road. Many, most, brazenly wheel their shopping carts right down the middle of the road. Cars are forced to drive around. Other customers stop and chat in the streets. Others drink, smoke, argue and fight. One customer had rammed his shopping cart into the back of a car stopped at a Stop sign. Then he started yelling at the driver and cussing and wavying his arms in a threatening manner.

More Crap Dumped by Alliance's Customers...

Note Alliance's facilities nearby in the background. Alliance claims they keep the park immediately across from them clean but won't cross the street to clean up these items dumped by their customers. If you walk a few blocks from Alliance in any direction this is what you will see.

Alliance's Employees Creating Road Hazards...

Alliance claims to manage it's customers on our streets. However, not only do Alliance's customer double-park and wheel shopping carts down the middle of the streets and constantly create all sorts of road hazards, Alliance's own employees also contribute to the problem. Peralta and 34th is a very busy intersection serving as access to both the 580 and 880 freeways. With more people moving into the area and business like Target opening up, Alliance continues to be poorly located and perhaps should find a more appropriate place to do business. CASS (other local recycler) is planning on moving. Alliance would be smart to follow their lead.

Alliance Lies about their Promise to Keep our Park Clean...

Alliance claims to keep the park adjacent to it's facilities clean. They claim to clean it up everyday. More often than not, this is what it looks like. And it's not just the immediate park that gets trashed. The surrounding neighbor within a 2-3 block radius is constantly littered with abandoned shopping carts and recycling bins stolen and dumped by Alliance customers. Over days and weeks, other stuff gets piled on as the blight festers and grows. Note Alliance in the background of photo #1. The sad truth is that Alliance is untruthful about much of what they claim.