Spending more time at home has led to an increase in residential trash.

There have long been concerns over health and sanitation at the Occupy D.C. encampment at McPherson Square, but how bad are things really? Pretty awful, according to a D.C. health official.

While other cities around the country have been dealing with mass arrests, evictions and pooping in connection to the Occupy movement, the biggest thing to come between the District and her occupiers so far has been making sure demonstrators don’t ruin the greenery in McPherson Square.

Photo by Chris Rief aka Spodie Odie The widow of a D.C. sanitation worker who was murdered last October at a DPW facility is now suing the city over negligence in implementing recommended safety measures. Larry Hutchins was killed, and one other worker injured, when an unknown man, reportedly dressed in a DPW uniform, open fire on the facility grounds Shadone Taylor-Hutchins claims in her lawsuit that the city failed to act on several…