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Talking Trash
By: Bake Town
Description: Garbage threatens the beauty of our local parks. Discuss your disgust with Bake Town!

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Posted by baketown Thu Jun 1, 2006 11:10:40 PDT
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My apologies to those of you who are sick of me hopping up on my soap box to bitch about people in this town, but an article in today’s paper just gave me more ammo.  According to the Bakersfield Recreation & Parks Department the beautiful new Park at River Walk has been greeted by much enthusiasm as well as mountains of trash. *insert sound of hand slapping forehead* Park crews hauled off “430 trash bags, at 55 gallons apiece, over the holiday weekend.”  Now, when I say trash, I don’t mean the stuff in the trash can.  This is liter.  Park crews have had to double their efforts to keep up with the clean up.

I don’t get it.  Are there people who enjoy litter?  Does anybody prefer a trash strewen park to a clean one?  I doubt it.  Then why don’t they use the trash cans?   They’re right there!!!  How much effort does it take walk a few steps to throw something away?   It must be a combination of laziness and stupidity. 

According to the article the top five parks with the most liter are: The Park at River Walk, Silver Creek Park, Yokuts Park, Beach Park, and Wayside Park.  The top two are in what are supposedly our cities newer, nicer areas. 

Obviously that hasn’t made them any cleaner.

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Comment From: twinkie

Sat Jun 3, 2006 23:25:16 PDT
It's horrible how a few dirty slobs can ruin it for the rest of us. We all like to picnic in a clean area yet not many of us will clean up after ourselves to ensure the person after us has the same experience. It's sick.
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Comment From: glenda

Sun Jun 4, 2006 08:44:24 PDT
I know I always clean up after myself. And I often clean up after others as well. If everyone would pick up just a little bit it would make a huge difference.
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