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Trash Free Rappahannock is now the name of a recently created
non-profit organization in the county, but “trash freeness” should be the goal of each of us as county residents. It bojls down to taking pride in our county. Trash has been the topic of discussion in July’s Board of Supervisors meeting and other articles recently appearing in our local newspaper.
At the July meeting Trash Free Rappahannock founder John Kiser urged everyone in the county to engage in “creative thinking” as to ways to encourage people not to litter. I would like to make a couple suggestions in support of that creative thinking.
1) Most of us take our trash to one of the several dumpsters within the county. Soon that distance may be increased by the creation of the new central trash collection site. Consider the following before transporting your trash, its simple too: Tie your bags so as not to have loose trash flying out of your vehicle. Secure empty boxes so they do not became air borne. Bundle and tie empty feed, seed, fertilizer and the like bags together, add a rock for weight so they do not litter our roads.
2) Our local grocers need and welcome your business. Do them, us and yourself a service by holding on to those empties until you reach your destination and then discard in the proper receptacles. Perhaps next year’s contributions should go towards distribution to stores of car bags, or stickers and bags with reminders not to chuck contents out the window.
3) Perhaps we can get schools to encourage sixth and seventh graders to develop a civics project of writing to the fast food chains asking them to put on all their bags nationwide logos or reminders to “stow it, not throw it.”
4) Get school kids to design signs to put in strategic locations (in cooperation with VDOT), or create an anti-litter poetry prize for high school and elementary school.
TFR welcomes and needs people who want to work with us, have ideas and can actively contribute. Please contact us and tell us what you can do.
Buck Payne
Sperryville
Trash Free Rappahannock (TFR) is entering a new phase,
thanks to the positive responses of numerous people and organizations throughout the county. I am especially grateful to the recent support of supervisor Pete Estes and Bob Moore, the VDOT regional manager, to our request for more active clean up by VDOT road crews, notably the contractors who cut grass, but in the past, have left lying the garbage exposed for us all to admire.
County Attorney Peter Luke has offered to work with TFR
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