Doing my part to help keep the Planet Clean
I can never understand why people feel the need to throw garbage out their window while driving down the road. I mean it's not that hard to just throw it away whenever you stop the vehicle. Basically every place you go there is a trash canister for garbage whether it be the gas station, grocery stores, malls, wal-marts, you name it they are in nearly every parking lot everywhere you go! But unfortunately that doesn't stop people from littering, especially when driving in the country. So I try to do a trash pick up once in a while to keep they route that I walk daily clean and since I haven't done one since the hurricane it seemed like the right time to do it again.
I did this cleanup yesterday on: 11/14/2018 but I didn't have time to finish this post until today.
The Start
Today I started by my house and planned on doing about a mile worth of cleanup along the side of the road and in the culverts. The last few times I went out I didn't have big enough bags and they filled up fast so this time I grabbed a 13 gallon tall kitchen trash bag thinking it would take quite a while to fill up.
A lot of times the trash laying on the side of the road gets mowed over by the tractor mowers and it shreds anything and everything things to pieces. This was a towel one day and the next day it was about 50 pieces of towel... That's a lot more pieces to clean up! LoL
What Did I Pick Up?
Most of the trash I pick up was things like food/drink containers and wrappers. Things like soda cans, beer/alcohol containers, boxes, cigarette packages and a lot fast food trash which is a bit surprising considering I live in the middle of nowhere North Carolina and there isn't any fast food within probably 20 miles of me?! There was actually even more trash than I thought there was, the bag was filling up a lot faster than I thought it would.
But that wasn't all!
I found this insulated ducting laying in the ditch, normally I would think this is a really weird thing to be out here but with hurricane florence not to long ago there is a lot of weird debris around. The ducting was in the culvert and it was water logged so it was heavy and way to big to fit in my bag. I looked around and saw a garbage bin at a community center down the road and figured it was a good place to place it especially considering it was trash day. The ducting wasn't easy to pick up so I ended up rolling the bin down the street a bit and threw it away, I can't imagine what the cars driving by thought LoL. After I loaded up the ducting (along with some other trash I grabbed along the way) into the trash bin and drolled it back to its rightful place .
There ended up being a lot more trash than I really expected, you can see my bag was filled up to the top. Unfortunately I didn't get to do the entire length I had planned on doing because my bag was full and bad weather was moving in fast. But there is always another day and the section I did does look great!
There is something incredibly fulfilling about doing things like this. I know I will never get a thank you and to be honest I am probably the only one who will notice, but I still know what I did and it feels great to help keep mother earth clean! :) It really is the little things in life.
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I remember when bottles had 2 cent deposits. Bottles were about the only trash then, there was virtually no fast food to be divested of its wrappings. We would take a burlap sack and walk the highway to the nearest store, however far that was. When we got there our sack was usually worth five bucks or so. A week or two later we would do the other side. We did this twice a year I think. Forty bucks a year was not a good salary even then, but shared between two small boys it made a pretty good supplement to our pocket money.
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Oh how the times have changed. LoL. No more do we see glass bottles, only worthless plastic bottles so there is no money incentive to do it anymore.
I do it because I hate walking past it everyday, it makes my walks less enjoyable. So I take it upon myself to fix it because no one else cares. But taking a walk and not seeing trash makes the extra effort worth it for me :0)
People who litter are the real trash. If only we could throw them out the window.
You went above and beyond and the planet thanks you. Well done.
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Awesome, did u ever get a grabber??
No, not yet LoL. I totally forgot about it until I was bending over to pick up the garbage.. I have to remember to get one next time im at the store! I smoke a bunch so my memory isn't the best Hahahaha..😉
Well done "MDH" I second that grabber request. We did a Riverwalk cleanup awhile ago and you would not believe the number of needles out there. Stay safe! :)
I am happy to say I haven't seen any needles yet so that makes me happy! I still want a grabber tho, I can only bend over so many times. Lol
Great work. People are trash not the trash itself.
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