Thank you, Dan, for all you're doing in connection with this effort.
As you know, Nancy has been out filling the yellow bags off and on over the
past few weeks when she's had the time. In fact, she's out there in the wilds
of Warwick picking up roadside litter at this very moment. (I'll be doing my
part, too, when I'm done putting up our firewood for next season.)
I just want to note one particularly vexing aspect of roadside litter around
here. We walk up and down our road several days per week. We take an old canvas
bag with us and always pick up litter as we walk. I estimate that 90-to-95% of
the stuff is made up of non-deposit beer cans, most certainly purchased in New
Hampshire. What's particularly dismaying is that we usually find newly tossed
beer cans along our road the very day after we picked everything up.
It's unfortunate, of course, that certain people think nothing of blithely
throwing their empties out of their windows as they drive along our beautiful
Warwick roads. (And, oh yes, that they're drinking while driving to begin
with.) But it's also very unfortunate that a nearby state evidently doesn't
think it's important to have a deposit law, and that we in this state suffer
the consequences. We spend a heck of a lot of time picking up the darn cans,
and we then take them to the Warwick transfer station, which represents an
admittedly tiny, but still real, marginal load on our town's recycling system.
I don't know that there's much of anything to be done about this. Perhaps, as
the saying goes, it just is what it is. I can't imagine there's any way of
catching the miscreant can tossers in the act, nor can I think of any way to
exert influence in an adjoining state's affairs. Does anyone have any bright
ideas or other perspectives?
Karl Quackenbush
On April 17, 2020 at 10:38 AM Daniel Dibble <metcalfucc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi All,
We will be doing something completely different this year. There are
yellow bags at the Chapel for individuals or groups to use for cleaning up
the roadsides in Warwick. They are in the front hall of the Chapel along with
a few safety vests. Please take one vest per group and designate a "safety"
person to stay near the road to warn drivers. Bring your bags to the Chapel
by Sat morning APR 25 so we can get them to the transfer station before 3 PM.
We are asking you to pick up road trash to commemorate the 50th
Anniversary of Earth Day. Also consider making a sign of "Creation Care/
Concern" when you drop off your trash, to be hung on a clothesline we will
put up over the bags. We will take pictures of the trash and the signs to
post on-line and send to the Recorder.
Let's make this a special week of clean up and commitment to keeping the
roads in Warwick and across the world clean and safe for humans, animals and
all of creation.
Thanks, Dan
