A successful trip

It was hot and humid Yesterdays huge rainfall exposed some real treasures. For example the tiny beer bottle from 2005. It has been laying there for 11 years!
Here's our collected mess:

A quick trip by bike

It was way to hot to walk the 4 mile stretch, so my husband took his bike and went on a speedy trip. Here's what he found:

Summer Trash

The students are gone. Might that be the reason for not so much trash on the road? It also rains a lot. Maybe people don't open their window to throw things out? We don't know, but here are the results of the last two weeks:

Also interesting, that we found our first selection of condoms :-)

Rainy weather - less trash?

Might be true - as soon as it rains constantly (like it does) our little litter bugs don't open the car window to throw out their trash. Only two bags we could fill! That's the smallest amount since we started documenting.
But a nice Lady offered to take one bag to her trash can at home with her pickup truck, which was nice. And two other ladies said thank you, too. So all in all a nice day ;-)

Springtime Trash

It was quite a scene out there - lots of fresh trash aside the road.

So all in all we collected 4 bags - of stuff we could see in the exploding vegetation and of course reach easily.

We were expecting a huge Foxfield mess...

...but it wasn't too bad. We didn't have enough time either to walk the complete stretch, so this is only the result from the start of Old Ballard at Owensville Rd to the bridge.

 

New findings

We went out April 10 but I forgot to post it. Here are our collected results.

And we went out yesterday to pick up only new stuff. nature is already exploding, so there's no chance to find older trash. But the amount of new trash is pretty amazing, it has been only two weeks ago. The wet white bag with the box was down in the creek. Luckily we had our grabbers, so we could easily retrieve it.