PHILADELPHIA — It’s a trashy post in a neighborhood group almost every May.
College students across Philadelphia move out and their curbs become obstacle courses full of heaps of rancid trash subject to the elements as students toss refrigerator contents, clothes, furniture, electronics, and more.
In North Philly some call it Temple Christmas, in West Philly it’s Penn Christmas — monikers that come from the treasures people sometimes find among the trash. But others call it an outrage as they try to navigate scattered piles of trash on the sidewalks.
