Letter: Trash belongs in trash cans, not Montgomery's streets

I must applaud Mayor Reed on the Clean City Initiative as everywhere one travels there is not just litter, but trash. But having a Clean City Commission and painting all the sanitation trucks with Do Not Litter signs so far doesn’t seem to be having much impact on the trash throwers.

Just this morning on my early morning walk through the neighborhood streets I filled a grocery bag with empty bottles, beer cans, pizza boxes, French fry containers, plastic soda cups, lots of napkins, and two messy diapers, oh and a big kitchen knife. Everything is the same almost every day except when we have a rainy night, then there is some less trash.

Notice I said trash not litter, to me litter might be a piece of paper or two, but empty bottles, beer cans, liquor miniatures and pizza boxes are not litter, that’s trash. We as a community can do better and look better if everybody just put a trash bag in their car and threw their trash in their trash home receptacle when they got home. Is that too much to ask?

Duane Mara, Montgomery

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