Walks around the neighborhood with Homer are yielding the same old litter – fast food bags, big plastic cups with blue lids, cans, cig butts – the usual. Today, we spotted this lonesome flip flop. Lodged in the grate – what you cannot see – is a big plastic cup. All these things are waiting [...]

Today, I completed my first duathlon. While running and biking throughout the course, I was very disappointed to see the many littered energy gel packets on both the run and bike routes. The bike route was a 20 mile ride through the beautiful Kansas countryside on the outskirts of Topeka. While I enjoyed the ride, [...]

The New Seekers featured in a Keep Britain Tidy campaign in the 1970s

A high school friend of mine brought a new/old litter combat campaign to my attention recently.  Litter campaigns have been going on since the early 1970s here AND in Britain. Check out this video clip from 1973 from the New Seekers and [...]

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 [...]

It looks like this person did. Please read on.
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 [...]