Letter: Please show some respect for the environment

Posted 4/11/17

To the editor:

I pick up trash most every week around Echo Lake. (Attached is a sampling picked up today.) It's coffee cups, drink cups, DD bags, nip bottles, beer cans, soda bottles and lately …

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Letter: Please show some respect for the environment

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To the editor:

I pick up trash most every week around Echo Lake. (Attached is a sampling picked up today.) It's coffee cups, drink cups, DD bags, nip bottles, beer cans, soda bottles and lately plastic wine bottles. I've done this for 3 years and have picked up well over 100 trash bags like this. 

Occasionally, I've found mattresses and box springs which the town agrees to pickup. Last fall, a couch. There are still many bottles and cans I cannot get to through the thickets. I'm going to try for several tires in the next week or so. 

Too bad not many have respect for our environment!

Ned Barton

Barrington

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