Josh and I did our civic duty last week by volunteering for the local Adopt-A-High Clean-Up of Highway 89. Well, ok, we didn't just volunteer out of the blue, my parents guilt tripped us into it. Either way, we did the job and did it well. It took about 2.5 hours to walk down and back our half mile section, and the terrain was rugged, as most of the trash was way up the embankment or way down by the river. Not quite as easy as we thought, but when we start a job, we do it well, so our section was spotless when we finished. Most annoying about the job was discovering where all the highway trash comes from. Not from random litter bugs throwing crap out their cars. No, most trash comes from construction and painting trucks leaving a job and heading to the dump. So much stuff that clearly came from a job site and was not securely tied down when heading home! Tied for first was household trash that flew off the back of a garbage truck on garbage day! How annoying is that, you have already taken the time to throw it out, and the stupid garbage guys don't secure their trucks and it flies out and becomes litter all over!! Josh has actually witnessed this happening on multiple occasions while driving behind a garbage truck, and all the honking and waving in the world wasn't going to make that guy stop and fix the problem, much less clean up after himself! And my last gripe: CIGARETTE BUTTS ARE STILL GARBAGE AND LITTER THAT SOMEONE HAS TO PICK UP...DON'T THROW THEM ON THE GROUND!!! On the plus side, the trash grabber things are really cool and pick up crap very well.
