Well, as promised,  I took the street cleaning kit out on a test run!

I was out there for about an hour and half.

I managed to collect:

• a kitchen sized trash bag full of litter,  
• a big-ass blister on my left hand,
• sore calf muscles, 
• a sore right elbow and
• grass stains on the knees of my jeans. (I slid a bit on an embankment of the creek near my house)

Well, our neighborhood association has picked the weekend we are particpating in the Great American Cleanup. So April 4, the Saturday before my birthday, we will be out picking up trash ( Read more... )

Noting this here so I can read later when I have time:

It has lots of good fodder for my neighborhood association's newsletter about recycling and neighborhood beautification:

http://www.astc.org/exhibitions/rotten/timeline.htm