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Loose garbage and a discarded couch litter an alley near the 1900 block of Toronto Street in Regina's Heritage neighbourhood on March 29, 2022. (Orion Paradis/Submitted)

Orion Paradis has been cleaning up the alley behind his Heritage-area business for years.

He says spring is one of the worst times as the snow melt exposes how much litter has been ignored over the winter. 

"It's not an exaggeration to say the the alleys, parts of it, look like a garbage dump," Paradis told The Morning Edition's Stefani Langenegger. 

"There's diapers, there's food, there's needles, there's mattresses, there's couches all up and down my alley. Most of it from the same properties that have been a problem for years."
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Paradis is just one of the residents and business owners in the area who are frustrated by constant debris littering the neighbourhood. 

He says some of it its illegally dumped, while other trash piling up comes from overflowing garbage bins.

"It's just such a big problem that the spots that are causing the issue are sort of sapping the will of the rest of the people to do something about it because it just never ends," Paradis said.