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By Mechan 11: The Collector was installed in North Camden s Cramer Hill Neighborhood. The heart for the 15-foot-tall robot was designed by a Camden high school student and then fabricated by Tyler Fuqua Creations. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
The City of Camden spends more than $4 million a year cleaning up after illegal dumpers.
Some are so bold, they’ve carved out specific dumping grounds. There’s a place where mountains of old Christmas trees pile up. Other places have tons of kitchen and bathroom appliances or accumulate debris from housing construction and other garbage sources.
Camdenites have been fed up for a while. They see it as a combination of greed from the haulers that send their trash there and a form of urban insult.