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
<mailto: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
