Green Up day was a huge success! Justin and I took a group of community members down to the Moran Plant to green it up a bit. And that is exactly what we did. We found all kinds of junk – 2 bikes, a shopping cart, several tires, a scooter, 2 bike rims, and lots of other stuff. The waterfront is looking much better now. It’s kind of sad to think that people just leave all this stuff lying around on the waterfront. Burlington has one of the nicest shore lines of anywhere around but there are some people who just take it for granted and use it as a dump thinking that it will all drift out in to the lake. But it doesn’t, the other day I found a message in a bottle in our harbor. It was dated from the day before; it just shows you how all the trash stays pretty close to where you left it.
We had a great group of people come down to help us out. CSC volunteers joined with other green up volunteers to pitch in and help. It was fun to get to meet the new people and see some old faces for the first time of the season. By the end of our greening up we had gotten through 28 bags stuffed full of trash and also a pile of stuff we couldn’t fit in bags. The Burlington water front is looking much better now. I would like to thank everyone who came to help and everyone who will help us in the future but doing what they can to just pick up a piece of trash here and there, every little bit helps.
