Scattering rubbish… That’s the name of the crime.🚮

Earlier this week, I was hiking through Cook Forest State Park south of the Allegheny National Forest. A bunch of girls 👭 were picnicking and joking around. My ears picked up when I heard them say, “scattering rubbish, oh my husband works construction 🚧, those workers all get busted for shit like that all the time.”

Litter is obnoxious. It’s one thing to dump waste in a pit on your own land or burn it out back, as many in rural Pennsylvania do, leaving it on the roadside, dumping it on public lands or private property you don’t own, just devalues the land and makes beautiful places less beautiful. 👺

Bring a plastic bag, toss it in a dumpster or if it burns and you have a fire, burn it. 🔥 But don’t just leave it somewhere it becomes a nuisance. 🐸 With so many old coal strip mines in Pennsylvania and behind, dumping garbage in designated landfills is cheap and rural folks can burn it. Most towns have recycling centers, so they’re even is green options. ♻ So many easy, inexpensive ways to get rid of rubbish without dumping it illegally Nothing wrong with being a hillbilly but don’t trash the places people love. ❤