Starting the New Year

It's time to start some trash clean up.  It's still winter technically but I can feel spring is just around the corner. I was out a couple times during the past week.  I took a survey of my mile from the Hennepin Avenue Bridge to the Plymouth Bridge.  Yes, somebody has been under the bridge drinking so I picked that junk up.

This is new.  Someone is storing their stuff along the river.  Neat as a pin.  Hope the spring floods don't wash all that stuff down river. 

Here's a sight I've seen a half dozen times before in this exact location.  Whole Foods bag, whole roasted chicken tray.  Yum. A picnic.  The receipt says that you also enjoyed barbecue potato chips.  I love barbecue potato chips especially with a Dr. Pepper but I don't leave my trash after I finish consuming them. 

That snag I was working on last fall has all sorts of new stuff that is stuck there.  See you next fall when the water level is lower.

Bassett Creek is looking nice.  I can see that there is some trash that is frozen into the ice.  I expected that.

I saw a nice clean bag from Bobby and Steve's Auto World hanging from a shrub so I used it to pick up some stuff.  While I use many bags that I find to pick up trash I usually bring a few from home, ones that I mostly get from Target.  Some city council members are proposing a single-use plastic bag ban because they screw up the recycling sorting machines.  We have one sort recycling in Minneapolis so we don't have to separate our recyclables by type but I guess those plastic bags are a problem.  According to a recent article in The Journal (journalmpls.com) there are more than 160 cities in the US who have already done this.  I wonder if the guy who loves the Whole Foods chicken would pay extra for the paper bag.