SO THIS IS HOW YOU DISPOSE OF NEEDLES?

 

On Saturday, I was headed to Fairlawn to spend the day with my son and his girlfriend, and I took the entrance ramp from Main Street to 76 West.  It was a mess, so I told myself I would go back there as soon as I could.

Tonight, I headed that way, but the grassy area around the Aldi Store at Thornton & Main got my attention.  There were spots of trash on their freshly mowed grass.

So I parked my car, and the first thing I saw in this mulched area was what looked like needles.  Seriously?

Oh yea.  Seriously!  Who does something like that, right by the parking lot where kids are walking?  That's a horrible thing to do!

This was one of the spots of trash.  Why?  Where did it come from?  The whole area didn't look like this, but all along the parking lot, it did.  And right beside this grassy area is a nice big trash can.  Who's so lazy they can't walk over there and throw their trash away?  Looks like a lot of people.

An older woman was putting her groceries in her trunk, and she said, "That's a never ending job."  I just smiled and said, "Yes, but it doesn't take long to clean it up."

I think that was the right response, because she just smiled and continued putting her groceries in her car.  If she wants to be negative, she can find someone else to talk to.  I'm really not into negativity.

I checked around the lightposts.  They seem to have a magnetic pull of some kind.  Cars can't seem to drive by without ramming into them late at night.  And nobody picks up the accident debris.  Just me.

So I made it to the entrance ramp from Main Street to 76 West, and it has been cleaned.  All the trash I saw on Saturday was picked up.  I remembered seeing bright pink and green tickets of some kind all over the place.  

Very cool that somebody beat me to it.  I love that!  

Also very cool that you can see how much trash accumulates in two days.  I picked up 2,169 pieces of trash around the Aldi Store and around this entrance ramp.  How crazy is that?  

These heavily traveled areas need cleaned every week.  I can't do that, because I have hundreds of streets to clean.  We need lots and lots of people helping in Akron.

I picked up all these pieces of wood.  I don't know what it was before it became kindling.

And I found these big plastic bags and a huge chunk of styrofoam in the cattails.  That would have been there 500 years from now.  It never goes away.

I asked Keep Akron Beautiful to pick up the bags, along with some pieces of siding that must have fallen off a truck.

I'm really happy with what I accomplished tonight.  When areas are not super trashy, I can cover a lot of ground.