Damn if it's not still there!

June 6, 2013 I think is the date I originally mentioned this piece of litter.  I was amazed as the weeks went by not only by the fact that no one picked it up but it never disintegrated.

It got rained on and baked in the sun.

Then it got snowed on and frozen.

And it pretty much never altered at all.  Yeah, sometimes it moved around a little - perhaps a passing car made enough wind to move it or maybe a gully washer of a rain storm actually floated if a few feet.

But it never changed.

And now....it's still there.  Hell, guys, we're talking almost 2 years here!  And whoever threw it out of their car for whatever reason probably doesn't even have the same damn car any more!

I haven't been able to walk my dog up that way since probably last November.  Too much snow, not enough edge of the road and too many people in cars who don't pay any attention to the rest of the world.  So I've been restricted to the dead end road I live on.

Today was the first time I've been up that hill and there it was:  THE TRASH FROM HELL!  Still looking about the same as 2 years ago...who knew?

As I said the last time around, I'm sure that none of us go around throwing trash out our car windows.  But do we do all that we can to avoid adding to the trashing of America?  In other words, do we avoid buying/using plastic whenever we can or do we at least recycle everything we possibly can?

Not just plastic - how about cans and bottles (glass ones) and how about things like toilet paper tubes & cardboard boxes - or even making the choice to buy our eggs in a cardboard (recyclable) container rather than the cute ones you can see through (but that are NOT recyclable)?

Do any of us think ahead to disposing of packaging before we buy an item and at least look to see if there is something comparable in recyclable packaging?

Our oceans are full of trash - most of it plastic if not all of it.  Everywhere we look there is plastic - probably never going to get rid of it all but at least we, as individuals, can do our best to avoid it.

There is a place just outside of Bangor, Maine that I refer to as Mount Bangor - it's a huge manicured grass covered pile of  garbage/trash/whatever you want to call it.

And I bring it to you using the wonder of the Internet:

And I can tell you it's a lot bigger now than when this picture was taken.

So along with remembering to keep out gas tanks at least half full, how about see what we can all do to cut our "plastic footprint". 

P.S.  If you follow the link to the Sunshine Guerrilla blog on the side of my page, my niece Barbara has a ton more good ways to go green.