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John Kiser
good works, hopefully providing the “collectors” with a double incentive.
How would he get this approach from concept to reality?
Rae Ross of Mountainside Market introduced John to Hunt Harris of the Ragged Mountain Resource Center.
Hunt was the facilitator for all things environmental, and was the right man for the job. Their cooperative effort led to last year’s first Trash Free Rappahannock (TFR) drive — an effort not only to clean up county roads, but to initiate the process of education and consciousness-raising.
As John said, “If this county is our home, then every roadside is somebody’s room.” And who wants a trash-strewn room? Change the culture
Hunt Harris believes that some 90 percent of the trash along Rappahannock roads originates from careless and unthinking residents, and that the long-term solution to the problem is not the Spring cleanup, but a fundamental change in the culture that accommodates such misdirected disposal.
“We must change this from the bottom up,” he says. County citizenry must reject
See TRASH, Page A6
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