12,000 kg?!
Posted by Magda
When my colleague Lisa Varano wrote about an Earth Day cleanup a couple of weeks ago, the numbers didn't really jump out at me.
But when organizer Andrew Lambden stood up at council tonight and said they'd collected almost 12,000 kg of trash that day, I was shocked.
I remember -- vaguely -- a time when littering didn't seem like such a big deal. Today, though, I'm sure I'd get stared down if someone saw me tossing a bottle or wrapper on the sidewalk. So where does all that trash come from?
"...12,000 kg of trash..."(?)-I'm from Missouri,who weighed it?
Posted by: Grunt | May 06, 2008 at 10:00 AM