Lead or Get Out of the Way
Karen Hawes
It has been another week of interviews, revealing more people who are (thankfully) taking on the task of keeping our communities clean. Some may do it better than others and most everyone I’ve met who is involved in this trade want to do more but have many obstacles in their way. For one thing, lack of the wider community’s support. Financially, they are also the last on the long list of services getting funding. Why should anyone put money into handling waste, right? It’s just trash.
So, wrists are tied while budgets are reduced to sub-survival levels in some areas. However, the trash keeps coming and no one seems to notice it. Even at low levels of maintenance, people tend to not notice waste management in their own streets. If no one picked it up, then more people might be more involved in the whole issue of “where to put the stuff.” However, until the landfills and dumps all but explode (some do) people turn a blind eye to it and turn up the volume for the TV or stereo. We’re easily numbed into complacency.
That is why I am thankful to meet people who aren’t turning a blind eye and who are actually working toward making their home town, or state and even country, a better place, environmentally at least. I’d like to list names but I would have a list that’s too long for one posting. It is over 100 so far and, to them and the others I have not yet met, thank you!
Have you thanked your garbage collectors lately, or people working on community efforts to make your town cleaner and a nicer place in which to live? If you haven’t try it, you might like it (and so would they)
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