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I show litter that I find offensive. I am trying to educate folks to recycle, reuse and reduce.
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A Middle of the Road Dinosaur
This morning I went for a run and found this dinosaur in the middle of the road: I’ve always been fascinated by the stegasaurus. This two-ton vegetarian has always been my favorite dinosaur. ...
Personal Trash on the Roadways
There is no excuse to throw this type of personal care litter on the side of the road. I regretted it when Playtex developed these plastic tampon applicators. These were not flushable, as the origina...
Too Much Plastic Bottle Trash
During my short walk this morning, I picked up 9 plastic bottles in the Boone Trace and Lexington Point subdivisions. Most of the plastic bottles were on the Lexington Point playground. The trash can ...
Plastic Trash in Radnor Lake
I’ve mentioned many times that Radnor Lake is my most favorite place in the world. We go there a lot to reconnect with nature and with God. We visited yesterday morning for our spiritual renewal...
Maybe They Will Come Alive and Throw Themselves Away
Plastic Flower Pots
Plastic flower pots like these are recyclable. There is no reason that they should have been dumped illegally as these were. Metro Nashville recycling centers will take clean plastic labeled recyclabl...
Happy Birthday!
Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of PlanetTrash: The Earth is Not a Trash Can. This image started the blog. When we spotted this overturned jaccuzi abandoned on the side of Newsom Station Road, so...
Marketing Hype is Trash
No kudos to Deer Park Bottled Spring Water for its New Eco-Shape Bottle from us. Deer Park claims that the plastic bottle has “an average of 30% less plastic to be easier on the environment.R...
What is This Litter?
At first, I thought that this was chocolate. It’s Middleton’s New! Black and Mild Wine. What? Made with Middleton pipe tobacco. Tastes great! Smells great! I’m confused? Is it wine? ...
More of Our Plastic World
This is a tank from a car or other vehicle. It was probably used for antifreeze or window cleaner. Now, it’s residing on the Branstetter property, although there is a No Dumping sign less than 1...
Plastic Rings of Death
Years ago when the dangers of litter to wildlife became apparent, these plastic rings around cola and beer cans were the first item I remember being mentioned. The plastic rings of death continue to b...
For Stupid People Who Litter
Smart water drinkers are litterers, not “nerd, dork, geek, brainiac, know-it-all, smarty-pants, smart alek, bookworm, egghead, four-eyes, Einstein or being mistaken for the I.T. guy”. You...
Pick Up Your Socks
All of us probably removed our socks when we went wading in the creek as a child. I know I did. But I put them back on after leaving the water, although my feet were usually still wet. In my neighborh...
Heavy Plastic
As I was walking down West End Avenue on a very windy day recently, I noticed this large amount of plastic on the sidewalk. While the wind was blowing stuff everywhere, this didn’t move. It was ...
British Beaches Are Full of Plastics, Too
In this article from The Press Association, plastics on British beaches are up 126% since 1994: Levels of litter on UK beaches soar 18 hours ago Plastic litter, including bags and bottles, is at its w...
Commentary on Plastic Bags and the Oceans
Here’s an article by Danny Westneat in the Seattle Times concerning a possible 20¢ charge for a plastic or paper bag. He quotes one of my heroes, Curt Ebbesmeyer, who coined the phrase, Great P...
Newsweek Asks: Who’s the Greenest of Them All?
Then, you open to this unique Target ad. I’ve never seen Target advertise in Newsweek. Target is promoting its reuseable Retote (trademark) bag. According to the ad, tear off the Newsweek cover....
Blending Plastic into the Landscape
This image is scary to me. I was picking up some litter yesterday in the area around my backyard, when I saw a grocery plastic bag blending into the background with leaves. What if the litter on the g...
Plastic Pot Recycling
The Sierra Club green tip for today uncovers a great way to get rid of those plastic pots that hold flowers, shrubs and trees. A company in Missouri makes landscaping timbers out of them. That’s...
Plastic Bags in the News
USA Today this morning has a front page story called Tide turns against use of plastic bags. And, no, Alabama friends and fans, it’s not about the Crimson Tide....
When Coca-Cola Bottles Were Recycled
As a first grader in the late 1950s, my class went to a local Coca-Cola bottling plant as a field trip, although we were not allowed to drink soft drinks in school. Milk, delivered in small glass bott...
The Mad Bag Lady of Rodd Point
I love this story from the Sydney Morning Herald about Kylie Davis, one woman bagging one bag of litter a day. “Plastic bags had wrapped themselves around the mangroves, chip packets floated acr...
Plastic Continents on the Earth
Watching the Altered Oceans videos last night made me cry. We’ve progressed from birds, strangled in six-pack rings, to young birds dying from eating a diet of plastic floating in our oceans. Wh...
And God Gave Man Dominion Over the Earth?
We have ruined the Earth. Go to this site and view the two videos, Trashing our Oceans and The Plastic Diet. What have we done? Is there anything we can do to reverse this tragedy?...
The Death Sentence for Plastic Bags
Here is a web-exclusive commentary from globeandmail.com in Canada: Most of the local reasons given for reducing [plastic] bag use have to do with their sheer volume and long-term persistence. The Was...
The Image of America: A New Flag
I propose that the United States replace its glorious Stars and Stripes with a new symbol. It’s the one I see everywhere caught on trees and flapping in the wind. It’s the Grand Ole Plasti...
Fun New Kids Car Game
If you’re on a short trip and don’t have the DVD player showing Shriek for the fifteen time in the minivan, have the children count how many plastic bags they find hanging from trees. This...
Is “Paper or Plastic” Going the Way of Smoking or Non-Smoking?
This article from Tennessean.com reports that Whole Foods grocery stores will not offer plastic bags. YES!...
Another City Takes the Step Against Plastic Bags
Here’s good news from San Jose, CA. Our subscription to the daily newspaper has expired. We’ll start reading it online and will reduce the number of plastic sleeves and paper that we recyc...
AWL (Absence with Leave or a Good Reason)
Posts have been few this week due to travel. Here is a cool article from Boston.com about ways to reduce your plastic bag use. Some of these have already been mentioned by PlanetTrash, but are worth r...