My neighbors and my household clean up trash twice a day and
yet every time I step out of my house or come home from
someplace, there is another whole load of trash to clean up.
Why?
Partly, I am the first house on the block and Lake street is
the cross street. Second, cars come down my street to avoid
the light at Park and Lake. While they wait for the traffic
to pass, some clean out their cars and literally shovel tons
of KFC, coke cups, pizza boxes and beer bottles, cans, etc.
The almost fifty kids on the block go to the store for
treats and peel the wrappings off and drop them all over.
They do that because their parents do it too. Cars speeding
across Lake St. aim pop cans and bottles into my yard.
Whiskey bottles get left by people who stand in front of my
house and drink--probably at 2 and 3 in the a.m., since I
never see them doing it. We keep a trash can and recycle
bins on the front porch in our attempts to keep up with the
pace of littering. The South end of our block does not seem
to be interested in cleaning up litter. When it rains, all
the litter is carried on the water to this end of the block
where it clogs the city drains so that we have lakes if we
don't get out there in the teeming rain and unclog the
drains. Saying pick up whatever litter you see is fine, but
I have to say I'm way tired of doing it as are my housemates
and neighbors.
WizardMarks, Central
Megan Thomas wrote:
>
> Of course this campaign pledge also closely resembles Homer Simpson's when
> he ran for Sanitation Commissioner of Springfield.
>
> Has anybody though of picking it up themselves? When I was taking the bus,
> if I saw some trash while walking to and from the bus stop I picked it up
> and either threw it in nearest garbage can or in my home trash when I got
> home.
>
> Megan Thomas
> over in the cleaner St. Paul
>
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> religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is
> somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
> Martin Luther King, Jr.
>
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