What's Burning?

A couple of weeks back I was walking north of the Plymouth bridge along the park path and was struck by the thought that all the trash in this area is just waiting to wash into downtown Minneapolis next spring.  It will flood and when it does this will all end up in one of those litter snags downtown.
 

 

The mile long stretch of beach between the Plymouth Bridge and the Broadway Bridge has plenty of trash but it is quite easy to get to.  No fallen trees to climb over.  No ravines to climb into.  So I walked up there today and started working.

The wild asters are still looking good even though it has gotten pretty cold.

I found a big black bag to use.  That's an old fire extinguisher on top.  I picked up the usual stuff plus one flip flop and one child's snow shoe.  Occasionally I find hypodermic needles on the beach and there was one there today.

People do make fires along the river.  Those aren't cigars in that fire pit. I met a guy about a month ago at the grand opening of the Mississippi Watershed Stormwater Park.  He told me that sometimes people who want to extract the copper from wire (or whatever) will burn the plastic (or insulation?) in fire pits along the river and then cool it in the water.  I probably have the details wrong but pollution is the result.

  

There was a lot of weird looking stuff around and in the fire pit.

Sometimes I find things that I like to keep.  I'm up to about $1.85 now for my efforts.