Canada’s ocean playground, my ass. What’s up with all the trash on our roads, in the ditches, and even stuck in the trees? What looks like a pirate flag blowing in a tree is nothing more than a black garbage bag. That white thing under the bush that might be a rabbit isn’t anything more than a piece of styrofoam. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a fucking grocery store bag! It’s disgusting! Why can’t people hold onto their trash and put it where it belongs? Or the garbage trucks ensure stuff isn’t blowing out the back? Can’t we get a chain gang formed of juvenile delinquent criminals tied together to pick it up? Or would they end up trying to kill each other with the coffee cup lid they find under the leaves? —Nature Unnurtured
This article appears in Apr 14-20, 2011.
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AMEN!
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Based on the info you’ve given us, I say it’s time to start a tour.
‘…and on the right, this piece of styrofoam was one of the original building materials for the Dingle tower while that plastic foodmart bag was believed to be held by Edward Cornwallis as part of an exchange for the natives’ inventive woven finger traps…’
Compared to some places i’ve been (Florida, Haiti , Mexico the DR & Texas) Nova Scotia is fucking pristine !
and away we go, yes flying shit is everywhere o.p. and just what do you propose that we at the bitch board do about it? do you think that i or anyone here, will go out and pick this stuff up for you?
guess what, it’s not gonna happen bub. stuff in trees are there because it was blown by the winds, where from, who cares? but most of stuff comes from someplace. unless you can tag the owner for sure, you are fucked, and just have to look at it, like the rest of us.
I do like the idea of the incarcerated picking this garbage up. A large untapped labour potential there. I wouldn’t mind seeing Archie Billard out there picking up that crap.
It’s Spring, AKA the ugly season. All the shit that was frozen over and building up in winter when nobody could retrieve it is now roaming free.
If I hear one more story about that piece of crap Billard I’m going to puke. The only headline I hope to see is where some other mutant has shanked the piece of shit.
What is he on his last and final, no I really mean final, final chance?
Next election we’ll see him running for the NDP as part of their “Get Soft On Crime” platform.
I’m probably going to be verbally brutalized yet again for saying this but…
kids don’t give a fuck… so they litter.
Older people (at least those I know) just don’t give a fuck…. so they litter.
my generation and those surrounding it….
those that grew up through the ozone layer ordeal (the first ‘nature’ uproar I recall in my days as a kid)….
seem to be instilled with more of a non-littering agenda.
Again, it’s just what I’ve observed… but I think there is a small amount of truth in my over-generalization.
I agree 100%.
Swampdonkey’s right though — spring is the ugly season when all the crap covered up by the snow rears its ugly head.
Z3 – speaking personally, as an old fucker – I always put litter in it’s proper place, if a receptacle isn’t available then I take it home. I’m a member of the Rails to Trails gang and am appalled at the amount of trash discarded on that trail.
I know this will never happen but – how about when the schools have an in service day when the weather is good, the students are asked to volunteer to go to school, get organised and supervised, and be assigned a place to clear up litter.
You know what really frosts my cupcakes? When people eat in food courts and just leave their trays with their garbage on it on the table. Lazy fucks.
There’s a certain someone who used to (or still is, I dunno, show got lame and I stopped watching) be on a show with 22 minutes in it (heh) that does this. I’ve seen it a couple times. She’s always with her kid too! Great example you’re setting for your child, lady.
it was a little too sweeping basil, I admit that.
I just know I see littering abound when riding around in hillbilly-ville…
open a pack of smokes, open the window, and let the wind do the rest….
out goes the Tims cup…. the foil liner… the ciggy butt…. the receipt… sometimes even the bag.
Makes it hard to respect your elders when they pull that shit.
guess it’s just the older folks I’m around…
OP, call up the granola, Earth-loving, save the trees lunatics….they’ll clean it up. The welfarians should be required to clean it up in return for their checks.
How about stop complaining, and carry a sobeys bag with you when you walk, and fill it, then throw it out.
The high tech garbage cans are back downtown!!!
Now I can throw out my garbage and help the environment!!!
COOL!!!
I used to volunteer each summer before the Penhorn Lake opened for the season. We would usually do it on a Sunday with a free Bar-B-Q fo rthe kid’s & everyone who helped.
Most years we would gather up enough garbage from around that little lake in Dartmouth, to fill 2 HRM garbage trucks !
That doesn’t include shopping carts, from Penhorn mall .