Central Americans in their country, just watch with bemusement when senior citizens from our country go on organized trash pick-up on their roads and beaches. It just does not occur to them to keep tidy, even in front of their own homes.
Last year, when I went to LA, all the freeways were incredibly littered. My husband said when he went there earlier this month the trash was piling up like the homeless.
And yet, he said there was a lot of redevelopment. He could not tell if they were getting better or worse.
We’re a mile from the 101 Ventura Freeway, and were just on it a few nights ago - saw no trash.
We’ve been here since 1969 and I’m not recalling freeway trash - anywhere!
Sure, travelers loose a towel or a sneaker, but it’s not long before it’s picked up.
Having a cell phone, whenever I see something, I call 911 and ask if a particular ‘incident’ has perhaps already been called in. If not, I give them the info and they say they will send someone out. Not to worry, not when I’m driving - -
Years ago I would have to wait until I got to my job, or home, and used the land-line to call it in!
I believe low-risk prisoners are ‘employed’ to spear freeway trash.
Anyone see Watter’s World on O’Reilly some weeks back, where an experiment getting people to throw away trash was to make the trash container hole like a basketball hoop? Yep, people enjoyed ‘hooping’ their trash.