When I was a young boy my father and I would pick up trash every weekend on our property that lined the road. We would fill a large garbage bag every week. This was back when anti-littering campaigns were on television. Remember the public service ad with the crying Native American ?  Back in the 1970 we were, as a society, trying to clean up the environment. I'm not so sure what happened since then. We had the "I" decade in the 80s but the 90s came and went with very little rising of our environmental consciousness.

My wife has taken up my father's crusade. She picks up trash along the road in our neighborhood. I'm not just talking about some coffee cups and soda cans, although there are plenty of those, no we are talking about end tables, metal frames that hold those annoying signs and  bottles. When the bags are full and too heavy to lift I enter the picture. We usually throw the bags in my car and take them to our curb for our trash guys to pick up. I strongly recommend that when picking up garbage you use those construction garbage bags.

Tiger comes to Town this July. Have you seen the garbage along side of River Road between Congressional Country Club and the Beltway ? I cannot imagine hurling garbage out of my car. We have cameras now for running red lights and speeding,. I guess it is not feasible but I would love to see littering cameras.

We've got a lot of work to do to clean up our environment as we try to go 'Green'. If we cannot stop throwing trash out our car window and dumping trash we are in a world of hurt.