I’ve spoken about this in various talks, so this is just great data on roadside trash.
An Adopt-A-Highway group picked up 36 bags of trash, plus three bags of plastic, glass and aluminum in 4 1/2 hours recently as nine volunteers cleaned Interstate 280 between Meridian Avenue and Saratoga Avenue in San Jose. Here’s what else they found on their last two cleanups:
- A small peacock feather
- A hikers day lumbar pack
- A pair of blue plaid boxer shorts
- A small white teddy bear with a red bow
- A childs plastic swing, with ropes still attached
- The support and two wheels of a desk chair
- A small, shiny new wrench
- A recipe for “Microwave Sausage Almond Stuffing”
- A very new-looking pair of womens high-heeled shoes
- A key tag with the label “DO NOT LOSE SUPPLY CLOSET KEY”
- Five golf balls
- A roll of painters tape
- A black leather wallet empty
- An unopened packet of Kleenex
- A garter
- An invitation to a 50th wedding anniversary in Spanish
- $26.86 in cash — and $35 in Monopoly money
via Bay Area roads awash in trash – San Jose Mercury News.
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$26.96 equals to $5.96 per hour divided within the group divided in the time it took. hummmm? plus and equal share in the trash…..no exactly the way i would spend my time in earning an income,,,,
i have a much better idea………
Years back the Boston Phoenix ran a piece in which the authors collected cassette tape found on the road side around the city, without the casing. Oddly, a significant percent of it was recordings by the band Bad Company.
Were folks destroying their B.C. tapes, or was this simply a representation B.C. being such popular band? I like to think the prior.