Opinion: Hideous, shameful, grotesque: Rains push mountains of L.A. trash into Ballona Creek
For as far as I could see, east and west, the banks were littered with plastic cups, fast-food containers, spray paint cans and chip wrappers. It had rained a smidgen the day before, the first wet weather of the season, and this was what had washed downstream from the area west of downtown Los Angeles.