The other day the kids and I joined a group of homeschoolers who were cleaning up a very messy ditch in the city. The place the city asked us to clean was a back road dumping ground, and one that was in desperate need of resuscitation.
The kicker came when my son yelled out, "We found a toilet!". Oh what a day. We filled about 10 bags of garbage and piled numerous items along the road like dumb bells, cardboard boxes, paints cans and lots of items that could have been recycled. One can of paint had been spilled all over the ground. It was awful. Made my stomach turn at times. We couldn't get to it all. You'd need an army to make a dent on this area of refuse.
It was obvious this road, because it was off the beaten path and out of sight of businesses, was a common spot to roll down your window and chuck things about, or even pull up the truck and unload un-useables rather than pay dump fees . I had no idea people still did this kind of unthinkable damage and knowingly damage our planet. But like I explained to my daughter, people always think someone else will clean it up. Someone else will take care of it. In this case, the someone else was a group of homeschoolers and their tree-hugger parents. So sad that a group of kids have to clean up the mess we adults make.
Maybe my grandkids will not have to pick up trash along the side of the road, maybe by then we will have more sense than to leave things for others to clean up.
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