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Every day we ride up to the top of East Rock and bring with us a plastic grocery bag.
Either on our way up or on our way down we stop to pick up the bottles, cans, cigar packaging, cigarette packs, candy wrappers, fast food wrappers and bags, tiny ziplock bags we imagine held narcotics, foil, spent disposable diapers, empty chip bags, paper cups, plastic cups, straws, those round dome lids for cups, plus miscellaneous other bits of trash too numerous to itemize.
Every day we pick it up, and drop it all into one of the numerous blue or white capacious garbage bins.
The photo shown here was the the litter that accumulated over the past 24 hours. Tomorrow we'll have a plastic bag of litter this full or even fuller.
So what's the point of pestering you with all this information, this litter update?
Hopefully, if you're one of the people who carelessly allows bits of litter to get away from you as you walk or drive through the park -- you'll now try to be more careful.
But if you're one of the people who doesn't care, who throws trash on the ground wherever you are or wherever you drive, you're not reading this anyway.
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Chiusa Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
Reopened Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
Rob Rocke (Utente registrato)
Rob Rocke (Utente registrato)
David Shimchick (Utente registrato)
As an East Rock neighbor and head of the Friends of East Rock Park I thank you for your ongoing service. You are fighting the good fight. It matters greatly.
I am also livid about trash and routinely pick it up. For the last 5 weeks in particular I have supervised 4 Youth at Work interns who have been working 25 hours each week in the park. Being 425 acres there is a lot that can be done, and we have done great work besides trash pickup!
But regarding trash pickup we have cleaned College Woods each day and its trashy perimeter - Orange, Cold Spring, Livingston and Farnham. We've cleaned all along English and the white trail to Rice Field, the half-basketball court, the View Street playground, and further into Cedar Hill. We've cleaned East Rock Extension multiple times. We walked Mitchell to Willow and cleaned over the bridge and the field below. We cleaned Giant Steps and filled several large bags walking in and out of all the hideaways along the Summit Trail.
Our most disgusting job was hauling away 2 PICKFUP truckfulls of crap dumped illegally over the cliff at Whitney Circle. That needed to be wheelbarrowed through the Whitney Museum to Ranger Dan's truck.
As Rob said, there is apparently a mayoral initiative on the way. I welcome it!
We must not be discouraged. We must reclaim the park from the litterbugs and illegal dumpers.
Again, THANK YOU for your service.
Please contact me via our website - www.friendsofeastrockpark.org
The least FERP can do is provide you with a T-shirt that says FRIEND on the back and an image of the rock on the front! You are truly a friend of East Rock Park.
David
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
David Shimchick (Utente registrato)
I've been leading work projects for FERP since 2008, and as bad as the littering is I don't see much trash on the bed or along the banks of the Mill...not on this side of Orange anyway. And we used to find many more used needles in the park. That has lessened. The most disgusting thing to me is used diapers left on the side of the road....a main road like Cold Spring! How can someone justify doing that? How?
Do you have a picker tool? FERP would be happy to supply you with one. They work amazingly well.
Rob Rocke (Utente registrato)
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
Just got back from my afternoon bike ride up ER and without even trying very hard beat yesterday's intake by probably 50% by weight and 25% by volume.
Some people walk or drive by and look at me like I'm crazy.
Most slow to stop to tell me thank you. And I always reply: Anybody can pick up trash.
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
I don't have an explanation for the silence.
David Shimchick (Utente registrato)
Actually, I also get lots of thanks and it helps to have FRIEND across my back in bold letters. I encourage folks to join the Friends of East Rock Park and be part of the solution.
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
David Shimchick (Utente registrato)
I agree with identifying the trashiest streets. I go through newhallville on my way to church in westville. Bassett is filthy, especially the intersection with dixwell. (I want to give an award though to several homes who keep immaculate properties!) I was waiting for the light to change when a teenager took all his garbage and stuffed it into the storm drain. I truly believe many kids in this community think it is for trash. I agree with Rob. Part of the campaign must include education in our schools. I also think church groups could make a big difference. Businesses must be accountable for their property including the curb strip as a gesture of public pride. Then there are the absent landlords to contend with.
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
Mahfouz (Utente registrato)
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