Earth Day Ditch Cleaning

Ontario roads

Driving Ontario roads, you see lots of brown grass. Much of the snow has gone, revealing a lot of junk in the ditch.

Many people I know go ditch cleaning. It makes a walk much nicer, rather than staring at human garbage.

Earth Day, April 22nd, is just a date on the calendar and I do this cleaning a couple of times a season.

32 plastic water or pop bottles, one visited by a snake!

How much junk?

Seems a whole bag of garbage fell off something.
10 water bottles, sanitary products, BBQ aluminum foil.
I hope they didn't just chuck it overboard.
Probably tourists...

Yep. 32 bottles

Fast food restaurants need to do something.
Wendy's 2, Tim Horton's 10, KFC 2, McD 3.

 A bag of garbage,

chip bags tossed out of the car window, gum wrappers...

I have to go out again, as there is stuff exposed by the melted snow.

On our first foray, I picked 5 beer bottles/cans and put them
on the road. They were gone when I returned!

Smokers are the worst! Can't tell you
how many cigarette butts I found!

One has to be careful. The traffic is fast.

They have 500m to pass, and do so right where Felix crosses the road.

Wish litterbugs would hibernate over winter

Between Wendy's and Timmy Ho's in Perth, we get a lot of garbage dumped overboard. We are one large coffee, or 1 1/2 hamburgers south of town!
This latest customer seemd to supersize his order: one iced tea and hamburger and cheeseburger, plus fries.

Wendy's hamburger dumped overboard

Bought it at 11 pm, chucked it out,
I found it the next day

After the snow melted, I did a major cleanup. April, 2011

And again in the fall, several bags full.

They rolled the rim
and chucked it overboard.

 I emailed Wendy's to complain, heard nothing. I even put it out on Twitter, nada.

I shall have to go into the store...
Tim Horton's is the same. They need to come up with a strategy for challenging this issue.
We can't teach some how not to litter, but maybe there is a way to deter them.

Collection from Earth Day 2006,
Sir Win. Middle School