Cleaning up illegal dumping

Joal Sanchez carries a bag of trash on Kingsley Street in a monthly cleanup organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

Volunteers carry a discarded toilet and cardboard litter as they help clean up Kingsley Street in a monthly meet-up organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council on May 30, 2015.

Volunteers scoop piles of trash as they clean up Kingsley Street in a monthly cleanup organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

A team of volunteers cleans up Kingsley Street in a monthly meet-up organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

Martin Castaneda, right, paints over a grafitti-marred wall as he joins a team of volunteers cleaning up Kingsley Street in a monthly meet-up organized by the East Hollywood Neighborhood Council.

Los Angeles sanitation workers Erik Scott, left, and Cesar Galvez clean up an alley behind the 700 block of East 107th Street.

Dava Florence surveys trash dumped in the alley behind her residence in the 700 block of East 107th Street in Los Angeles in May.