There are no trash elves!
Everywhere I look there is trash. Fast food bags and cups along side the roads, cigarette butts by the hundreds at every stop light, dirty disposable diapers in parking lots and even on benches at the mall!
This week someone left an empty cigarette pack, beer bottles, an aspirin bottle and other trash in the snow next to my husband’s truck. Then we noticed the beer case with more empty bottles ON his truck. Like someone found a convenient place to party between trucks.
At our house we have a rule. We do not litter. Period. Ever. Anywhere. Even if we do not recycle it we take the time to throw it in the appropriate places. Not in someone’s yard, in front of their business, on their vehicle…it really is not that complicated. What do these people think happens to their dirty trash?
There are no trash elves folks. Pick up after yourselves. Use your ashtray. Take along a trash bag. Let’s keep the world clean. We all have to live here!
I am a new volunteer for picking up litter in my community. I just got started on Tuesday,April 14. In only one country block of a heavily traveled 2 lane road ,I collected 2 large bags of litter. One by one ,I gathered the pieces. Just like one by one, they were mindlessly discarded by unconscious persons performing unconscious acts!I with conscious intention gathered them all,placed them in a proper trash bag and got it all out of there. People don’t realize the collective whole of disaster,their individual acts of littering creates. Why? I don’t know and it is something I do not understand.I would love to see a blog…Why Do You Litter? Thanks for the chance to respond…take good care,and remember we are all fellow stewards to this planet,wether we are aware of it or not.Here is to some awakenings coming soon for those seemingly still asleep and dumbed down to the magnificent beauty of this place we all call home…EARTH.PEACE and Happy Earth day April 22 2009.