The Mile Stretch
Today a few workers from the MOMs store in College Park and myself embarked on a mission to make the streets of Rhode Island Avenue clean once again. Each of our stores has “adopted” a portion of road near our locations that we help to keep clean, all organized through the Office of Highway Maintenance for each county.
You would be suprised by both the quantities of trash that are out there lurking in the bushes, invisible to a passerby, as well as the actual things you may find along your treck. To give you an idea of what I mean, when we first sized up the road this morning, about a mile stretch, it didn’t look too bad. Piece of cake! No such story. The roadway was littered with over 45 pounds of garbage and 30 pounds of recyclables. This is just what we could find. There could be more buried in the leaf debris. Among the litter, we found 3 full lighters, 4 pairs of socks, 2 pairs of gloves, countless candy and fast food wrappers, empty beer and soda bottles, batteries and…a wig.
It was a lot of hard work today, but well worth the effort. We made an immediate impact on the environment by going out and getting involved. Stay tuned for more adopt-a-road stories.