NY 8 and the true cost of litter 🚮

I was walking a remote section of NY 8 the other day, noticing the various pieces of litter along the road side. Some of it is intentional garbage dumping – the worn out television and recliner, the lamp shade – but a lot of it is packing from go food – plastic water bottles, beer cans, burrito and burger wrappers, french fries holders like you get from many a fast food chain.

Probably very few people litter but many pass by this road, and the occasional burger wrapper and beer can out the window adds up. Probably far more toss the wrapper in their car’s backseat and then put it into a designated garbage can, emptied and hauled to the outskirts of the city to be added to the ever growing mountains of garbage.

Go food might make people happy but it’s a temporary high one quickly consumed and discarded. Often the prices at gas stations and grease pits are far marked up from a sandwich made at home or reusable water or juice container. Money wasted that could be invested towards improving your life and future. Money spent on fatty foods and intoxicating beverages and more generally garbage now littering our roadsides.