I pick up trash when I walk. This is from a walk home from downtown on October 5, 2017. (The trash I picked up on the way downtown was left in a downtown trash bin.)
I've been doing this long enough to be pretty confident that if each of us picked up two things (and then two more, for someone who truly can't do this work), there would be no trash on the ground.
I really really really HATE picking up after other people.
They OUGHT to properly dispose of their own trash. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......................
BUT.
I do not want my planet to be a trash pit, and apparently it's up to me to clean up after dirtbags.
A lot of people are wondering what they can DO to make things better.
Well, this is one thing practically everyone can do. It makes a (very small, but) tangible difference. Each and every day, making the world a little better. Day after day. (I wish I knew how many pieces of trash I've picked up. I wish I knew how much weight. I wish I knew how much of it was properly recycled.)
The trash I pick up and send to the landfill (or the recycling plant) ought to NOT end up on the ground again (at least not in the same format).
Every piece of plastic I send to the landfill is plastic that will never (in my lifetime) end up in the gut of a sea turtle or an albatross..........................
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2 comments:
I though of you when I saw this article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2018/02/23/plogging-is-the-swedish-fitness-craze-for-people-who-want-to-save-the-planet-its-making-its-way-to-the-u-s
It makes sense to me that in Scandinavia it could be A Thing. :-)
Wondering how anyone can call it jogging if they have to pick up something more often than once every hundred feet.... It could be "jogging" in my neighborhood, I guess, but get out on a bigger street and you're stopping every 10-20 feet, and more often on a bad day. >:-( We walked downtown yesterday for the first time since the snow melted, and I bet I filled a plastic grocery bag four times. (I empty my bag in public trash cans if I think the stuff won't blow away, so the amount I bring home, when I've been downtown, is WAY less than I've picked up.)
And that's not including the car bumper. !!!
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