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 mailto: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
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