In 2021, I joined the city’s Litter Steward program to help clean litter in my neighborhood streets and parks. I have also volunteered to rake leaves in the fall in the downtown area, plant trees and help the city clean onramps through the Coordinated Highway Ramp Litter Cleanup Project.
People are complaining in the letters to the editor for the city to do something. Well, they already are. But we should do our part, too.
In my experience, the litter on the onramps are mostly fast-food disposables that are thrown from a car, like coffee cups and hamburger wrappers. Also cigarette butts, which are harmful to the environment. It is not from the homeless. I call on everyone to teach their children and those in their households to not litter outside and damage our precious environment. Put a litter bag in your car and dispose of it at home or at the gas station.
Join the Litter Steward program to be part of the solution: showing your neighborhood you care and not expecting someone else to clean up.
Do you remember the commercials we saw back in the 1970s of the Native American crying looking over a landscape of litter? I think we should bring that commercial back!
