Greetings from Cheyenne, Wyoming. Took a minute to wander around downtown and was happy to see very little litter within a four block radius of the capitol. It’s very windy here and I was pleasantly surprised that there wasn’t more trash blowing around. Overall, it’s pretty clean here. Found a few items, so here they [...]

Yesterday, the Kansas City Star did an article about the lifespan of litter. They did a walk in a park, picked up litter, photographed it and showed the life span of each piece. One of the items, which I have photographed many times for this blog, was a red straw. Said straw takes 450 years [...]

This sign also needs to include the words, “PLEASE CLEAN UP AFTER YOUR SELF.”
On a recent trip to New Mexico, I was struck by the amount of litter hung up in the tumbleweeds. The land is pretty open there so litter blows freely along with the tumbleweeds. It gets hung up along fence rows and [...]