Category: dumpster diving
By nobugsonme on Dec 29, 2007 in bed bug eviction, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and hoarding, bedbugs, canada, curbside, dumpster diving, eviction, getting rid of bed bugs, hoarding, landlords, mental illness, sherbrook street, tenants, winnipeg | 4 Comments
Lindor Reynolds of the Winnipeg Free Press reports on a bed bug eviction case in Winnipeg: a woman was evicted from her Sherbrook Street apartment. It was infested with bed bugs. She is disabled and on social assistance. This is a heart-breaking story.
But this is also a complicated story: George […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 8, 2007 in Donna Freydkin, Greenpointers, USA Today, activism, awareness, bed bug bites, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug hotels, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, dr. michael potter, dr. michael raupp, dr. stephen kells, dumpster diving, entomologists, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, greenpoint, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, journalist, journalists with bed bugs, new york, news, nyc, spread, stories, tossing stuff out, travel and bed bugs, treatment, usa | 12 Comments
There is so much bed bug news now, that blogging even half of the major articles that come across my web browser is too much. I offer a selection, as well as an interesting tidbit from a NYC blogger. More news forthcoming, including an update on Cincinnati, and some exciting developments in San […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 19, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, furniture, ohio | 0 Comments
Fox19 reports “City Establishes Bed-Bug Furniture Pick-Up Procedures and Hotline.” (Hopelessnomo drew our attention to this in a comment, but I wanted to make sure everyone saw it.) Cincinnati now has a hotline people can call to have infested items picked up by garbage collectors.
Pros:
They have a hotline.
Garbage collectors know what […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 7, 2007 in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture | 3 Comments
We’ve been following the bed bug situation in Cincinnati for a while.
Yesterday, Joe Wessels of the Cincinnati Post reported that city officials were forming a commission to fight the problem:
The Bedbug Remediation Commission, a five-member panel of local health, social service and elected leaders, is in the process of forming and will try […]
By nobugsonme on Sep 4, 2007 in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa | 4 Comments
The Patriot Ledger of Southofboston.com (2/2008: link removed; no longer working) reports that even students’ own furniture cannot be brought into dorm rooms, say Eastern Nazarene College officials, who are trying to prevent bed bug outbreaks on campus.
That means no mattresses, no sofas at the school in Quincy, Mass. The policy only applies to […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 29, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, detection, dumpster diving, flea market, government, history, housing laws, landlords, legal, misinformation | 6 Comments
I always rant and rave about the absurdity of New York City officials basing their statistics of the incidence of bed bugs in NYC on the number of people who call 311 to report bed bugs as a housing violation.
Here is my rant on NYC statistics, for those who have not read it […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 16, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, curbside, dumpster diving, nyc, used furniture | 5 Comments
bed bugs
Originally uploaded by silverakshi
I previously blogged the same bed bug-infested curbside furniture from another angle, and another photographer.
But I loved this shot. As if someone was trying to warn the aliens not to land on McKibben Street, in Brooklyn.
Please, everyone: label your bed […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 29, 2007 in apartmenttherapy, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, dumpster diving, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, prevention | 12 Comments
Well, I know what your answer is, of course!
But I am glad to see Maxwell at Apartmenttherapy.com covering this question as a poll. I think it’s great AT is taking bed bugs seriously. After all, it’s a home and design blog. Nothing, nothing screws up a home (or design scheme) like bed […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 22, 2007 in avoid bed bugs, bad ideas, bed bugs, being green, colleges, consumer, dumpster diving, freegans, furnishing bedbug-free homes, new york | 16 Comments
The New York Times is fickle. In the last year, they’ve scared the pants off of New Yorkers by publishing scary articles about how bed bugs were spreading around the city and what you need to do if you find them.
So imagine my surprise to find that yesterday, Steven Kuritz published an article in […]
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