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According to Keep Kansas City Beautiful, 54% of litter is deliberate and 44% is accidental.  On my daily afternoon walk with Homer today, I found this fast food bag and a discarded prescription refill bag along with the prescription receipt in the middle of the street several [...]

It had been a relatively light litter walk this evening with Homer. Picked up a soda can and two AA batteries – even found a $5 bill! (Is that considered litter??). So, Homer and I are strolling along enjoying a beautiful sunny afternoon walk. As we turned the block to head home, we spotted a [...]

I found out about EVIE and her owner, Susan Harp, through Keep America Beautiful. EVIE is short for ‘Every Volunteer Is Essential’ and her mission is “keeping the earth looking good in addition to spreading the word.” Susan and EVIE have been doing great things with litter prevention in their town of Evansville, Indiana. [...]

On this first day of spring, I looked out my window and saw this blue jay in the lilac bush. As you can see, we had more snow – around ten inches – and the second KC Litter Index was canceled. The litter is still out there waiting to be indexed and waiting to be [...]

Hooray, hooray! The sun came out today.  Everything was so bright, so I thought I’d focus on the brightly colored litter that I find. The thing with litter is that it’s easy to find themes – lids, cans, paper, food, beer, bottles, etc. Anyway, this was the first time I ever saw purple sand paper.  [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for some blue sky. This greyness is wearing thin. I came across this shot I took in the spring of 2008. As you can see, litter’s been lingering on my mind for a while. What made me think of this shot was what I saw last Saturday [...]

Yesterday, I participated in the Kansas City Litter Index. This involved driving to designated parts of the city and rating the amount of litter we saw. I paired up with two outstanding medical students from UMKC. We drove around for three hours and logged 52 miles driving in two different areas of the city. Our [...]

Today’s post is dedicated to my friends who not only support what I’m doing, but who are also out there picking up litter. I get frequent comments from my sister who is constantly picking up litter along the Rio Grande on walks with her dog, Blue. Earlier this week, she stated that she had left [...]

Some people don’t understand the words: “No dumping. Drains to stream.” Too often, I find litter near grates. Eventually, it makes its way into nearby streams. Homer and I found evidence of this yesterday. We decided to take a walk next to the stream that runs through the Shawnee Indian Mission. Next to the Indian [...]

According to Keep America Beautiful, paper accounts for 22% of the litter that’s out there. Now that the snow is pretty much all melted, lots of paper is appearing on the streets and grassy areas. It’s also been very windy these past few days so stuff is getting blown around everywhere. Today’s entry is dedicated [...]