Trash

[mallorys_camera]

Interesting what you pick up along the highway. Cigarette butts, mostly—disheartening because this part of New York has had fire advisories in place throughout the summer and fall due to near-drought conditions, which have dried up all the grass. It's depressing how many morons ignore reasonable precautions. Like I don't care if you smoke, but don't set the world on fire because you're jonesing for a nicotine fix.

People like to toss beer cans and fast food wrappers out car windows. Less frequent are the glass flasks of the hard core boozers. We found a couple of condoms. (I like to think they were filled with rainwater run-off.) A set of keys. Someone also deliberately or inadvertently tossed a full dossier of court documents—they were scattered over about half a mile and mostly reduced to pulp, although you could make out occasional words, complaint... allege... Docket No: 4329...

We found a lot of bones, too, but since none of them looked to be human, I refused to touch them. I figured they were biodegradable.

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It's been windy. Very, very windy. The wind pokes the occasional hole in the thick cloud cover but those holes fill up quickly. The wind kinda spooks me. I'm not sure why.

Comments

[halfmoon_mollie1]

I so admire you for doing that. Oh, sure,I know you wore gloves and all that but still....yuck.

[mallorys_camera]

It was definitely Not Fun. 😀

[michaelboy]

We pick up litter on our country road several times a year. Busch beer cans are the top find - some with chewing tobaccos spittle in them - followed by Bud Lite, Mt Dew and water bottles - some discarded full of urine. I'm always amazed at the abject disregard for the local environment.

[mallorys_camera]

Ohhhh! I should have kept a running record of beer can brands! 😀

[smokingboot]

Well done. Litter is so disheartening, we've got a serious problem with it round here.


I often find that the spooking wind has a story to tell or something to show.

[mallorys_camera]

Do you read David Sedaris? Very funny American essayist who lives in the U.K. Anyway, when David Sedaris isn't writing funny essays, he roams the UK roadways for up to eight hours a day, picking up trash.

[adoptedwriter]

Eeew….
Roadside trash.

[mallorys_camera]

It wasn't fun. 😀

[asakiyume]

What group did you do this with? (Or is this something where if I read the previous entry, I'll know the answer? TIME TO GO FIND OUT!)

[mallorys_camera]

Ha, ha, ha! 😀

[puddleshark]

Well done for taking a stand against the forces of Trash!

Your roadside litter sounds very similar to ours. From the sheer quantity of beer/cider cans and whisky bottles, you would think that the lanes here are used exclusively by teenagers and alcoholics.