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
<mailto: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
<mailto: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
