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Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Ryan Murray, left, tosses trash over a fence as a team of volunteers cleans up a vacant lot on Kingsley Drive in East Hollywood in May 2015 in a monthly meet-up organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

Ryan Murray, left, tosses trash over a fence as a team of volunteers cleans up a vacant lot on Kingsley Drive in East Hollywood in May 2015 in a monthly meet-up organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles on Friday unveiled a data-driven rating system to identify the grimiest areas of the city and prioritize cleanup efforts, building on less coordinated trash mitigation efforts of years past.

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

A team of volunteers cleans up Kingsley Street in East Hollywood in May 2015.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Volunteers scoop piles of trash during a monthly cleanup organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council in 2015.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Volunteers carry a discarded toilet and litter collected in a monthly cleanup in East Hollywood in May 2015.

  (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the streets of L.A.

City sanitation workers Erik Scott, left, and Cesar Galvez clean illegally dumped trash from an alley in the Green Meadows neighborhood of South Los Angeles in May 2015.   (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Volunteers collect debris from an alley at 101st Street and San Pedro in South Los Angeles in July 2014.

  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Angie Roman with the FixLA Coalition climbs over trash in an alley at 101st Street and San Pedro during a cleanup in South Los Angeles in July 2014.

  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

LAPD Officers Junior Nua, left, Art Ashcraft and Shawn Crabbe pick up trash in an alley in South L.A. during a cleanup drive in November 2013.

  (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Cleaning up the street of L.A.

Pedestrians walk past a pile of trash left on Gladys Avenue between 5th and 7th streets in downtown Los Angeles before a sweep by city cleanup crews in June 2012.

  (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)

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