Jonathan Waggoner
7/24/2019 8:44 AM
It sounds a little cliche, but it's easy to look at random trash, say a discarded paper soda cup, and think that someone else will pick it up. Of course, in downtown Seattle we do have a battery of 'Downtown Ambassadors' that are paid to clean up, but that's the exception and only for a small area of town. Everywhere else we have to become that someone who picks it up. Not necessarily every time, but if some of us do it some of the time, then it all gets picked up. In that way we can be a part of a community that cares enough to not let trash sit there on the ground. Perhaps for it even to be a gateway beyond trash into caring more about the people, animals, plants, and the rest of the environment around us to do something when we can.