Dear Joey,
Today my family and I walked 1/3 of a mile from our home on Haskell St. down Mooreland St. and picked up 4 lawn bags of garbage. Gross right?
The amazing thing is what we found among the general waste we found 161 small bottles of Seagrams 7.
One Hundred and Sixty One!!
Not an accidental "oops my recycling blew away"…
I am truly amazed at the litter that is everywhere in Gloucester RIGHT NOW!
This is not a complaint but a plea —
People please step outside and if something doesn’t belong on the ground, pick it up.
When you have trash please do not litter!
This our home, your home, your children’s home…
Every day should be Earth Day,
Muffy White
p.s. IF you are on Mooreland St or Haskell St and do not know how to dispose of your small/large liquor bottles, please drop them by our house we will be happy to help!!
Good Morning Gloucester 
Love this post, as a member of the One Hour at a Time Gang, we as citizens need to take a stand against littering,
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Every day should be Earth Day? I don’t know about that BUT! The liquor stores in town should be asked to not sell Nips? Its been done in many other town and cities in New England.
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i would start with stopping plastic bags.
i do not care what size people purchase and drink their 7’s just where they put them when they are done…
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Then should the grocery stores be asked not to sell Solo cups and DD not sell coffee and no bottled water and what about those filthy cigarette butts…that crap is everywhere as well..you can’t penalize package stores because some people are pigs..
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Clearly someone has not been taught the concept of ‘economy of scale’.
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My initial one hour and 8 minutes at a time this Saturday I can tell you what goes to the top of my list.
1) Cigarette Butts. Drop one next to the bench and it will be there degrading for 15 years. Why isn’t there a pile there? Because Donna and Patti and the rest of the gang picks them up on Saturday! They are the worst to pick up. Small and annoying. If you’re going to smoke coffin nails why don’t you roll your own?
2) Dog poop in a plastic bag. Congratulations! You picked up after your dog and your neighbors think you are a nice person. But then when no one is looking you whip it into the woods or against the fence? You just lost your “nice person” award and replaced it with WBAH award. (World’s Biggest Asshole.) If left where you tossed it that dog shit will be preserved for up to 12 years. Or someone has to pick it up. Why don’t you be real neighborly and put it on your neighbors porch, light it on fire, and run away!
3) Unwrapped Snickers Bars are totally OK. Next time I won’t show my booty to Donna so I can eat them later. Just don’t leave them next to the plastic bagged dog shits. That even puts me off my feed.
Fun Fact: The One Hour at a time Gang is actually fun. Starts the weekend off right and my daughter even wanted to stop and pick up more litter on the way home. I had my eye out for sports bars. 😉
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You are so funny Paul, love the post and look forward to more Saturday mornings with you and Evvy
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One solution to cigarette butts is more public ashtrays — like they have all over the place in Toronto, for example. Then, again, the City of Gloucester can’t seem to manage even public trash cans — let along public recycling containers — anywhere except along Main St. and a couple of other tourist venues. Not even at the ballfields where scores of parents gather and litter their empty spring water bottles because, I’d like to think, there are no recycling containers. Get with the times, Mayor Kirk!
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Similar story – A Sutter Home wine drinker lives somewhere along or off High Popples Rd. I’ve traced it up as far as Fairmount. I plan to resume my detective work this spring.
Mark
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I have a similar problem. I live about 1 nip’s distance from a liquour store. They buy thier nips and suck it down on the way home, and then throw them in my yard. There is also an assortment of fast food places near the liqour store, and the number of people that seem to think nothing of tossing thier bag of fast food trash out thier window into my yard is just unbeleivable.
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We live in East Gloucester and have walked Moorland Road for years and have seen literally hundreds of the same Seagrams nips bottles on the side of that road. A large amount of people must spend their entire live drinking Seagrams nips and pitching them on Moorland, maybe at night? Not a new phenomena from our observations. Thanks for picking up. We will join you.
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Every Day is Earth Day for me but not for many who call our beautiful city home. Paul is right on, and thank you Donna for your gang. As you can tell by the amount of the nips it is probably the same person over and over again. In a recent visit to Utah I was so so happy to see recycling everywhere, library, gym, grocery store, everywhere recycling…. I think that it makes a point for everyone who lives there to do the right thing. Rose has a hard job with the contamination of the recycling I know about that. First we must learn how to read…. Recycling… Trash… and then perhaps we can do it right.
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Maybe its the golfers…
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I have tons of macDonalds and DD cups near my street. I pick them up, mostly on trash day! I think they are tossed out of cars. Ugh!
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So glad we have neighbors like the Whites who are willing to roll up their sleeves and collect filth from other irresponsible people…Thank you!
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