Environment

Welcome to the Graffiti section of the Waste Management website.

Graffiti represents an environmental eyesore, degrading streets, houses, subways, buses and trains, it damages communities and is a constant blight on neighbourhoods and City Centres.

Graffiti appears everywhere: on public buildings, in parks, on shop shutters, street furniture, bridges, railway track sides, cable boxes, bus stops, play areas, subways, monuments and other open surfaces.

The majority of graffiti is ugly and sometimes offensive; it engenders an atmosphere of neglect and criminality. Its presence often coincides with other environmental problems such as abandoned cars, litter and fly posting.

There are different types of graffiti:

• Tagging - this is the most common type of graffiti. The tag is a type of signature. It is a way of saying “I am here” and is used in some cases to mark out territory.
• General (racist/offensive/obscene) - in some cases graffiti can be highly offensive and inflammatory, being used as a form of attack against an individual or group of people.