Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Trashing Texas – Is any place worse than the Comal River? Let’s have a contest to see!

Thanks to Helen Ballew for sending in this article by Shannon Tompkins which tries to raise "our collective awareness of how rampant the issue of trashing Texas public spaces has become and perhaps trigger some thoughts about how to address the issue."

I’m thinking about having a contest to see if we can find the most trashed-out piece of public property in Texas – the place where thoughtless, lazy, arrogant, shameless, irresponsible and otherwise odious individuals dump/leave/toss the biggest piles of litter.

Sadly, we do not lack for possible winners.

The lower reaches of Buffalo Bayou after a good rain washes tons of discarded cups, bottles, cans and assorted garbage into Houston’s signature waterway certainly could be a player. The rafts of floating garbage in the bayou after a rain are mind boggling.  READ MORE.

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