We did a park clean up project a few weeks back at Thunderbird Park in Glendale, Arizona.  We trimmed some trees and bushes and picked up trash along a fence line about 1.25 miles long.  We filled 4 extra large trash bags with trash!  There was everything from fast food wrappers and containers to a few shirts, a few casette tapes AND literally thousands of cigarette butts!  We had one young lady pick up 356 butts in 2 hours and we had 4 people on trash duty and we didn’t even scratch the surface on the butt issue.  It is really sickening to see how little regard people have for our parks and streets that they can’t even wait until they get home or to a trash can to dump their garbage.  I’m not sure how you educate a moron, especially since you rarely ever catch people in the act but I’d like to figure out a way to get the message out.  For now we will just continue to work with the Parks & Rec Department on clean up projects.  If you have the time please get involved and help out!

 If anyone has any ideas on ways to get the message out about littering Iwould love to hear them.