Big Bad Wolf: Trash Cleanup

[Twisted]

So while I totally loved the picnic and understand the wind was an annoyance (spent my day fearing the donation money would get blown away) I went for a small walk around part of the picnic grounds (where the pictures were taken) around 6:00 and there was an obscene amount of trash to pick up.

Paper plates, candy wrappers, MORE candy wrappers, cans, a cigarette box, smaller plastic bags, water bottles and cans not consumed, watermelon chunks, other amounts of food just spilled lazily. I could go on but really..

This is not about finding the source, I honestly will blame some of it on the wind. But we need to bring some awareness to the situation as leaving a mess is an easy way to have the park owners kick us out. If your done eating, pick up your garbage and walk it to the trash cans. We all know if the wind blew away your personal belongings you’d go running after them.. well go running after the paper plates and empty cans too! This is not even a furry specific issue, this is just decency and responsibility.

This is what came from my little romp around just a third of the total space we furs occupied:

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[Kelossi]

Yikes. I wonder if there’s ways to incentivize after-picnic volunteer work?

Psst

[Twisted]

Something I forgot to mention before is to the 2-3 furs nearby I barked at at the time: I appreciate the cooperation of even if you didn’t have all the bottles and cans (you know whom you are), and thanks to LUCKY for running back to the pavilion for the plastic bags.

That said this was 3 hours before the end of the day as we had to start making judgement calls on how many people were sticking around and if the weather was going to stay tolerable or turn severe. I have no idea what was found at the end of day by the furs who stuck around to do the final wave of cleanup.

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[Unico]

I stuck around until pretty much everyone had left and there was very minimal trash to be found left behind after the bulk of the group left, I myself made a sweep around the grounds along with Shadowrunner, mostly to look for a foot pad that possibly fell off Mia’s Suit and didn’t find it.  I would say everything was cleaned up very well by the time the last of us left the picnic.

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Throughout the day I had probably picked up like 80 or so cans and bottles off the ground, and many plates. (And on that matter, I think we need weights on the paperplates and such, as I think the clean plates at the beginning of the food line were getting caught in the wind, one-by-one). Or a picnic table in the open, with several plates overturned, with Cheetos and such scattered all over, while people are sitting at the table, facing it, but nobody had taken initiative to clean it all (for probably a duration of an hour or so of it being there, in plain sight to everyone).

Given that others (as those posted above) have been cleaning as much trash as well, I’d think that really only half the people that attended actually put their empty stuff in the trash/recycling. But yes, after the event, pretty much everything was cleaned (too bad nobody had a broom or anything though).

But I don’t know, I just don’t quite understand. If you’re sitting at a spot, and there’s some bag of chocolate covered-something overturned, or some bag of Goldfish spilling on the ground, I don’t understand why people don’t take initiative to at least roll up the bag and keep it from spilling more, even if it’s not theirs.

Also, I don’t intend to come off as all ‘pissed off’ over the matter, just, ‘cooome ooon, peoopleeee, it’s not that haaard’. But yes, thank you to the others that have taken the initiative to clean up messes that aren’t their’s.

[Wynn Whiteblood]

I made a conscious effort to clean up not only my plates, and cans, etc. but also those from people who had been sitting there before me.  I did personally leave a few there however,  because they had only been opened and had maybe a sip taken out of them (I assumed they might still have an owner).

That said, there was totally not enough recycling bins there.  x__x

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