Label them as "BTC wallet" and leave on the curb. They'll be gone before morning

Check this below as well

https://www.rirrc.org/recycling-composting-disposal/electronic-waste

Where ever you bring your electronics to I would destroy the hard drives, throw out the cables, keep a phone or two as backups if yours break, and remove the hard drives from the computers. Your info is almost always recoverable.

Someone mentioned staples to recycle. This is true. They recycle it for you but are not responsible for your data that you leave behind. Sometimes staples will offer a credit towards other electronics. Keep in mind this does not count as a donation. - I worked at staples as a manager for years.

Donating to goodwill is an option. Once again your info is not their responsibility it is yours.

Yes..and the problem is these hugh uo east side residents that run the city spending money on useless.stuff like bike lanes and adding boulders to parks and spiked park benches. Instead of actually combatting the problem and helping.

It's gotten considerably worse but nowhere near California bad. California has a high population, high homeless population, and other states ship their homeless to there. Providence is rough, especially in spots like over on and around Smith or Thayer but places like LA and even Portland, OR are like the perfect storm of shit when it comes to homeless populations.

It just feels worse than it is because the city is so small and the homeless are so spread out due to cops breaking up their encampments, so you encounter them more frequently instead of out west where they're common but they try to congregate in camps. Wickenden is definitely starting to build up a bit though.

Rental costs are fucking skyrocketing faster than jobs around here pay, utilities are shooting up, plus some people still catching up from the pandemic as not everyone got the checks. It's going to be a very rough winter. People who work service jobs are finding themselves increasingly fucked and those of us on social security and disability are finding ourselves without any resources after the pandemic and shifting of resources. If I wasn't a trans woman that found a room for rent on Facebook, I'd be homeless right now.

This place will turn into a drug and gang infested shit hole within months.

I feel bad for those visiting Federal Hill for a good time and are victimized by whatever dwells in this place.

Albuquerque and Portland are bad

It is definitely becoming much worse but is nothing like the west coast. But you don’t ever want it to get that bad

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California homeless vs Rhode Island homeless are polar opposites. You can watch all the Youtube videos but until you go there its on another level compared to here.

CA has nice weather year round while RI doesn't

CA has had a "meth" problem for decades while RI has barely seen a meth issue here.

Staples has the best recycling program around

It's probably about average in the US, maybe a little higher than a couple years ago,(for obvious reasons.)

This is a really weird account.

I think it’s bad in a sense that it will get worse before it improves, but definitely not on the levels of other large cities like others have said. But with that being said, I think homelessness is a huge issue that needs to be taken more seriously. It’s bad for the people living on the streets, bad for business, bad for the environment, bad for crime. I just don’t have a reasonable solution because rents are fucked and shelters suck ass.

I don’t think they were necessarily calling homeless bad. More the situation bad. The fact people don’t have a place to live (and that number is increasing) and have to pitch a tent in a park is bad - the people are not necessarily bad though.

Nothing is worse than California especially San Francisco and Los Angeles. I’ve traveled all over the country and RI isn’t that bad although I feel the situation will get worse in the coming years.

I’m not sure customers were drove off. It’s liquor license renewal season and they’ve been operating without a proper business license for months now. It’s weird that getting a letter from the Secretary of State saying “you’re not allowed to do business in Rhode Island” wouldn’t have closed them in February, but it’d definitely stop the city from re-upping their license for 2023.

Now I'm picturing a toddler shouting "c'mon bro! One more!"

Nice

The situation is bad everywhere, but here it’s not even comparable to other places in the country. Every metro on the west coast is 1000x worse. I have seen people openly use heroin in Portland OR and SF. Drove through the Boston tent city the other day and recently went to New Orleans and it was quite bad there too. There’s just much smaller numbers here and they tend not to be centered in the walkable areas. It’s definitely ticking up.

It's not remotely comparable to LA or SF, like not even close lol

Def not half way to Cali, but yea it’s noticeable for sure

New England is super classist so they are more scared of homeless people and exaggerate the problem and blame the homeless for failing them

It was just as loud up the hill, and was still going on at 4:30am when I had to get up. Yeah, it's some crazy construction going on, has unfortunately happened before and will happen again.

It’s not good and has gotten worse but I’d honestly question if someone who’d make that comparison has been to any major city in California recently.

That state is 20% of the country’s homeless population, with the overwhelming majority of them in just 2 metro areas. Here, the problem is bad. There, it is unfathomable.