This makes me sad.
How do I know it was only 479 feet? Because I looked it up on Google Earth, which I love.
I heard a young man at the bus stop lamenting that he was broke. Said he didn't have the money for the bus. Said he needed a hustle. I wanted to say "Duh!" But said nothing. Pick up the cans in the hood! You can probably make $10.00! And wouldn't even have to work too hard.
Dear Mr. Mayor, I will clean up the litter when I am out and about. If you will buy me one of these:
Trash grabber from Grainger. I'd pick it up now, but I can't bend over. I could even be your ambassador in your new Safe City Initiative. I read about your initiative to make Akron safer in the City News, Summer 2013 edition. We can even have wrist bands, like these made:
Custom wrist bands from Wrist Warehouse. Then these ambassadors of pride can pass out the bracelets, as a reminder. I can also use social media to its fullest advantage.
Let's have pride in our home! Please don't litter!
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We had some bad storms last week and noticed during our Sunday bike ride there was a lot of litter on the roads and trails. Most of been blown around. It made me sad. I just want to clean it up! It's hard being on a bike, I can't really clean it up. I need to just walk the trail someday soon with a trash bag. Funny thing I always notice is 95% of it is recyclable!! I wish everyone cared about our beautiful planet.
This has been my pet peeve for years. When I look back at old letters-to-the-editor that I keep in an album, I've written a number of them about littering. It has to be a lack of education because I think back to when I was a kid in Jersey City and I remember eating a bag of Wise potato chips and then just dropping the bag on the street. Then that crying Indian commercial came out and people started talking about it. And we got educated. Why people are still doing it, I don't know. Laziness? Why don't people have more pride? My daughter won't throw a peach pit out the car window into woods we're passing. I should blog about this. I have a couple of shocking stories about people who littered right in front of me.
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