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.
