If you want to drop off your yellow roadside cleanup bags before Sat, bring
them to the Chapel and drive to the far end of the east side (paved)
parking lot. You will see others there already. Thanks. And don't forget to
make a "Creation Care/ concern" sign.
Dan
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 9:47 AM Joe Farley <joefromwarwick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Dan,
[Public post on purpose.] You said in your original message to "Bring
your bags to the Chapel by *Sat* morning *APR 25...*". Is it ok if we
bring them there BEFORE Saturday morning? How much before (days?), and
where do we put them?
Thanks,
Joe Farley
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 3:28 PM Louise P. Doud <lpdoud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I like this idea.....
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On Apr 18, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Sue O'Reilly-McRae <sueomc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Perhaps some creative signage....
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020, 11:09 AM Daniel Dibble <metcalfucc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I don't think getting NH to put a deposition bottles and cans. I am
amazed at the huge number of deposit cans in the Warwick recycling
container. As we pick up, it seems to be the same trash in pretty much the
same area of the road day after day. So, some people seem to just
habitually throw their trash out the window, on their way home? Trying to
raise the consciousness of those who could care less is a test of our
resolve and persistence. Persist, resist, and keep picking up other
peoples' trash until they take their responsibility seriously.
Dan
On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:06 AM NANCY HARNDEN <nlharnden@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hello folks!
I am the "Nancy" that Karl was referring to.
I have done road clean-up for decades where I grew up in Saugus and
again when Karl and I lived Framingham, and I rarely picked up a
returnable can or bottle. Yesterday, I started at the New Hampshire border
and worked my way on Route 78 towards Warwick for about three-quarters of a
mile on both sides of the road. As I walked along, I carried two old
buckets, one for the New Hampshire cans and bottles (and some nip bottles,
too) and one for just regular old trash. At the end of the day, I had two
yellow bags stuffed with the cans and bottles and two with regular trash.
Perhaps I should "return" the two bags with cans and bottles to New
Hampshire.
I seem to remember that when the bottle bill in Massachusetts was first
proposed, the ads against the bill claimed that people who litter would not
stop littering since a nickel wouldn't mean much. Obviously, not true!
Nancy
P.S. - The blue Bud lite cans seem to be the most popular.
On April 18, 2020 at 9:25 AM george bennett <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Back in April 2007, I sent the following to the ‘Executive Vice
President and Chief Marketing Officer' of the Miller Brewing Company. I did
not get a reply.
"Dear Mr Ransom,
When my son and I spent an our this spring evening picking up the
winter’s littered beer cans from the rural road that passes our house, we
collected 227 cans in 0.3 of a mile. Your famous product, Miller Light, had
the dubious distinction of being the most popular, accounting for 196 - 86%
- of the trashed cans we collected.
I am sure you are not deliberately targeting the demographic of
heedless, drink-driving litter louts, but you have certainly got them
covered in our small town.
Yours sincerely, etc,"
Apologies for the slur on ‘our small town’. On our road, those cans
were almost certainly imports from NH, but that would have taken too long
to explain.
George
On Apr 18, 2020, at 9:11 AM, Elaine Reardon < ear@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I’ve fantized about having remote cameras set here & there. I’ve often
found the small peppermint snaps nips down here along with beer cans; that
I suppose folks use that to clear their breathe before arriving home., and
having the miscreants spend time doing pick up.
elaine
On Apr 17, 2020, at 8:11 PM, Sue O'Reilly-McRae < sueomc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Well said, Karl. I have often thought that Anheuser-Busch should be
required to pay a community service fee to rural communities.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2020, 12:55 PM Karl Quackenbush < karlq@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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
