Cleaning Up Litter

[RingTwist]

Do you take extra bags to clean up litter when you camp? I often do, because I find the litter so irritating. I wish everyone would clean up after themselves though.

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


Yes, littering...anyplace...is irritating, disguisting and costly to clean up.

But, wouldn't it be more fun to hide in the bushes with a shotgun...to see who's doing the littering?

Just wondering...!!

[campclose]

Ha! Yes it would (hide in the bushes that is). I do pick up litter! I think people are just sick. It irritates me when anyone litters anywhere. I've seen people toss things out their window when they are driving. I'm like seriously?

[Pathfinder1]

Hi...


Littering is an area which the Canadians take more seriously than we do, I think. Even a few decades back they had litter depositories along major highways, which helped greatly to keep their highways cleaner. They even have signs stating how far away the next one was.

[Grandpa]

Idaho uses, as I'm sure most other states do as well, Adopt a highway program. Groups or individuals will adopt a mile of a highway and have regular scheduled cleanups on it.

I was tooling along just outside of Hailey (near Sun Valley Ski Resort, home to scads of rich and famous) and saw an Adopt sign saying this was Demi Moore's section of road. And lo and behold, right there was this pettite little lady with big sun glasses and a big straw hat and a garbage bag cleaning up the road. Just ahead of her was a pickup truck idleing along with two big goons riding the tailgate. (Her bodyguards) Now I don't really know if that was Demi or a paid look alike but I will always have a fond spot for her for stooping so low as to pick up garbage right at the height of her career.

[ejdixon]

Yup! It's become a habit of mine. Pathfinder's suggestion does seem like another option though.

[pastywhite]

I do some volunteer work with the Smokies and one of my job expectations is to pick up trash.

[shaun]

I will not clean up litter left by other people, as a matter of principle. Why should I clean up other people's rubbish? I will tell the people responsible to clean up their mess. People who leave the environment in a mess disgust me, I'm not afraid to speak my mind and tell them to clean it up.

[alex k]

always have a trash bag ( plastic supermarked bag ) in my back pack . when hiking on trails i will pic up plastic bottles and cans others have trashed the trail with , as long as it does not bother the others'm hiking with .

[JeepThrills]

I confess I kind of get a case of the heebie jeebies when it comes to picking up other people's trash. I think this is leftover from when I was younger and there was a story going around about people hiding needles in stuff.