ONCE A WEEK SEEMS JUST ABOUT RIGHT

 

Today, I went out before the rain starts, and it only took me 15 minutes to clean up 14th Street.  I picked up 79 pieces and it's all cleaned up again.  

It seems like picking up trash in Dayton, Tennessee, really makes a difference.  It stays pretty clean between cleanups.

So after I finished that, I started on a new area, 11th Street from 27 to Broadway.  I only made it to the railroad tracks, but that was enough for today.  Here's why:

I found an entire case of purified water!  I wonder if it fell off the back of a truck.  

I find lots of water bottles, some empty, some full, some with disgusting stuff in them, but I've never found an entire unopened case before!

I found all these extremely heavy 3" bolts.  That's why I didn't stay out as long as I usually do.  My trash cart was hard to pull with all these in the bottom of the trash can.  I'll take them to the trash place tomorrow and put them in the metal container.

Can you imagine running over that with your car?  Wow. 

There was a lot of trash around the railroad tracks.  I'm guessing people clean out their car while they're waiting for a train to pass. 

It was so hard to pick up.  Bottles, cans and bags were trapped in briars on slippery gravel.  

Looks good now. 

The whole street looks good now.

I picked up 580 pieces of trash in a little over an hour.  In Akron, I would have picked up so much more, but in Akron, it would be all trashed up the next day.  My guess is this street will stay clean for weeks.  

Today was a very good day.