Earth Day 2012

Happy Earth Day!

Cole and I picked up garbage on our county road again this year. Today we were out for less time than last year and picked up less too. Using the wagon helped a ton this year. Instead of making 3 trips back to the house, there was only one trip needed. We separated everything between garbage and recycling. Most of the garbage is recyclable; pop bottles, cans, plastic and glass containers.

Last year we picked up garbage in the rain... This year we had really, really wet ditches so we didn't get as far as we wanted to as our shoes and socks were soaked! We are planning on doing a second trip down further down the road when it dries up. There is still a lot of plastic and bottles/cans visible in the ditch.


Sideways Cole with our loot.

 

The paint can and an exploded tire were the unique items of this year's loot.

 

Cole and Me ~ Earth Day 2012

Earth Day clean up 2011!

Tonight the little boy and I walked down our county road and cleaned up garbage!  We walked about 1/2 mile down the road on both sides. It took us 3 trips and 10 grocery bags, 1 bucket and carrying stuff to get everything back to the house. We ended up with one full size garbage can of recycleables (6 of the bags) and 4 bags of non recycleables, 2 car parts an old-old rusty handled bucket and a piece of lumber. Oh, and a sock... not to mention lots of empty cigarette containers (did not pick up the cig-butts) and an empty liter of vodka. 

We made sure we had our gloves on and anything questionable I picked up, not Cole. We had a few broken bottles etc. but for the most part it was beer/pop/energy drink cans and pop bottles.  Not too bad for doing our part this year. Cole was so proud of his 'loot' and by the end of our trips he grew more frustrated with people who litter. Very proud of my liitle guy!

The rain decided to show up during our second trip, and is supposed to continue all night,  so I'm going to make a pot of hot tea tonight and warm up! Happy Earth Day!










Might buy one of these little pick up thingys for next year though, much easier on the back!

Algoma Park

Last night Cole and I went to the Northern Township park on Algoma Street near our house. We have gone there a hundred times in the last few years and there always seems to be garbage everywhere. Last night however there was broken glass on the basketball court and parking spaces, a tore open garbage bag, cans, plastic bottles in the grass and play sand. So today I wrote a letter to Northern Township asking whose responsibility it was to clean it up and to let them know it was disgusting. I did receive a response, almost right away. They are not responsible for cleaning it up and whoever was living next to it when they built the park agreed to take care of cleaning it up. I have noticed however that many of the neighbors to the park are new. Houses have sold and people have stopped caring. So this weekend Cole and I will put on our gloves, roll up our sleeves, grab our garbage bags and head down to the park. I'm hoping most of it will have been picked up but if not we'll be doing our Earth Day duty at the park.