So, a local surf school company is sponsoring the 3rd annual "90 days to Earth Day". This is a project in which school kids K-12 pick up trash for 90 days until Earth Day.
I decided to pick up trash on my street today. I did not weigh the trash today, but it was a lot! I only walked 5 houses up and back (both sides of the street) and I picked up 553 cigarette butts!!! I could not believe it!! I also gathered glass and plastic bottles, aluminum cans, lots of plastic particles, a mylar balloon, car washing sponge, 5 blue doggie poop bags filled with poop!!!! I could not believe it! Seriously, why go through the trouble of picking up the poop if you are just going to litter it anyway???? There was more, but I could not get it b/c it was across a water-filled ditch and amongst very large entangling vines.