So Saturday we went and volunteered for the city clean-up day. Our group was only 3 people, so we got assigned one of the smaller local parks. It’s actually really underused because, for some reason, the city thought that a park inside a business office complex that has no guest parking was a really awesome idea. But there was enough trash to keep the 3 of us busy.
To keep it interesting, we went for some of the more high difficulty/high stink factor trash, like junk in the pond (you’re welcome, tadpoles), using Nature’s trash pickers (sticks fallen from neighboring trees) – Come to me, soggy newspaper! We also were picking up some trash by the creek bed, until a friendly fella with binoculars informed us that he comes to the park to observe snakes – oh. Okay. Good to know. I love doing my part for keeping America clean, but getting upclose and personal with a water moccasin is not high on my list of Earth Week activities.
Anyway, here are 3 things I decided while pickin’ litter:
- If it was clean enough to put in your mouth, your cigarette butt is clean enough for you to hold onto until you find an appropriate disposal site. Appropriate disposal sites do not include the edges of ponds, public walking paths or children’s play equipment. Suck all the cancer sticks you want. Just don’t litter.
- Sticker vines are bitches. And they hate people.
- There is a special place in hell for people who let their Styrofoam packing peanuts loose. Those things are hard to collect, get everywhere and take centuries to degrade. The ones in our park obviously came from a nearby construction site. I shake my fist at you. Eat snot and die. Or, you know, buy bio-degradable packing material. That would work too.
4 comments:
Every single smoker should be forced to do park cleaning duty for a day just to see the ridiculous numbers of the butts and wrapper they strew around.
After 5 90+ degree days here, I think the water is warm enough for me to wad in my on pond and scoop out all the fall/winter debris - the fish love it but it is a bit unnerving to have your toes sucked on and not be able to see who/what is doing it in the disturbed and clouded water!
You know, people pay good money for that at the spa.
I really wish somebody would put some development money into an eco-friendly, bio-degradable cigarette butt. Can't they make something out of soy? It seems like they can make everything else out of it.
Soy-girattes? Sounds too crunhy garnola for cig smokers. How about going back to unfiltered and rolling your own? That way smokers will know the straight pleasure and won't have the pretense of it being "healthier" for you. Bonus - no butts to litter the world.
I would bet the crunchy/granola type of cigarette smoker is already familiar with the concept of rolling their own.
I still think that soy cigarette idea has potential. Organically grown tobacco, unbleached and 90% post consumer product papers and a biodegradable soy filter. AlternaSmokes - the Earth Friendly Cigarette.
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