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john937
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This Saturday I joined friends for their "Friend of the Highway" cleanup party.
Most states have a program where an organization adopts a section of road, and the organization gets a little public sign on the road
in response to their regularly picking up the trash along the roadway.
We drove to "our" section of road in a rural area just outside of town.
Driving down the road at 30 miles an hour you didn't see much trash, looked fairly clean.
They dropped us off in pairs to clean about 2 miles of road, 5 teams for a total of 10 miles.
Everybody got a yellow vest, two 50gal trash bags and a "toad sticker" (broomhandle with a nail sticking out the end).
Here's what we collected:
10 people filled 16 garbage can size plastic bags in just 2 hours. That's 800 gallons of garbage.
That's an average of 80 gallons of garbage per mile.
The most common item of trash was a beer can.
For all those litterbugs that throw beer cans out the window: Thank you for flattening them first, that makes them so much easier to spear with a "toad stick".
Next time please flatten them on your forehead and drive into a tree, as your reward for combining two dumb things: drinking while driving along with littering the highway.
The next most common item was a fast food container.
Litterbugs prefer Budweiser: we picked up about 8-10 Bud, BudLite containers for every one of anything else.
Litterbugs prefer Pepsi to Coke: we picked up hundreds of Pepsi containers and only 3 Coke containers the whole stretch.
Hardest item to collect: plastic lids from fast food drink containers - they shatter if you stick them with a "toad stick" so you have to reach over and pick them up by hand.
Surprising: very few cigarette butts/packages.
Items that make you go Hmmm: a bra & men's underwear
Strangest item: a plastic cobra snake
America needs volunteers to take responsibility. Join something, do something, anything!
It's fun, doesn't take all that much time, makes you feel good, meet some new people.
I highly recommend it.
Most states have a program where an organization adopts a section of road, and the organization gets a little public sign on the road
in response to their regularly picking up the trash along the roadway.
We drove to "our" section of road in a rural area just outside of town.
Driving down the road at 30 miles an hour you didn't see much trash, looked fairly clean.
They dropped us off in pairs to clean about 2 miles of road, 5 teams for a total of 10 miles.
Everybody got a yellow vest, two 50gal trash bags and a "toad sticker" (broomhandle with a nail sticking out the end).
Here's what we collected:
10 people filled 16 garbage can size plastic bags in just 2 hours. That's 800 gallons of garbage.
That's an average of 80 gallons of garbage per mile.
The most common item of trash was a beer can.
For all those litterbugs that throw beer cans out the window: Thank you for flattening them first, that makes them so much easier to spear with a "toad stick".
Next time please flatten them on your forehead and drive into a tree, as your reward for combining two dumb things: drinking while driving along with littering the highway.
The next most common item was a fast food container.
Litterbugs prefer Budweiser: we picked up about 8-10 Bud, BudLite containers for every one of anything else.
Litterbugs prefer Pepsi to Coke: we picked up hundreds of Pepsi containers and only 3 Coke containers the whole stretch.
Hardest item to collect: plastic lids from fast food drink containers - they shatter if you stick them with a "toad stick" so you have to reach over and pick them up by hand.
Surprising: very few cigarette butts/packages.
Items that make you go Hmmm: a bra & men's underwear
Strangest item: a plastic cobra snake
America needs volunteers to take responsibility. Join something, do something, anything!
It's fun, doesn't take all that much time, makes you feel good, meet some new people.
I highly recommend it.
