Hold on to your butt!

Flatlandish came back from his run today and announced that he was going outside to pick up trash. He invited me to go along; of course!

We picked up along New Hampshire Ave, part of Washington Circle, and then in the alley out back. We spent about an hour, and each filled a big grocery bag. We weighed it at the end--6 pounds! Sweet. Our main focus was cigarette butts. The trend seems to be that people get out of their cars, pay the meter, and drop the butt. We'd like to get the Park Service to put a trash receptacle/ashtray on Washington Circle by the south crosswalk--it was really bad there too.

The trouble with cleanups like that is that you need a time limit, or a weight limit, or something. Otherwise we could have easily spent all night out there.

Oh, and one woman did say thank you.

Want to do your own cleanup? Participate in the Alice Ferguson Foundation's Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, this Saturday! DC Surfrider will be based at Patagonia's shop in Georgetown, focusing our efforts on the waterfront park area.