Just being near a landfill means that the area will have a lot of trash as stuff might get blown out or carried out by birds. The trash that bothered me the most was the stuff that was clearly tossed out of a passing car. The blatant lack of respect for our community and environment infuriates me.
Number one on the list are people who toss out cigarette butts. They are a pain to pick up and they are everywhere. As far as total numbers are concerned, they were clearly the most frequently found piece of litter along the highway. What is already a disgusting and deadly habit is made even more diabolical due to the littering that tends to go with it (not to mention the times that they have caused wildfires).
Oddly, the second most common piece of litter were Diet Pepsi cans. While there were a couple of other types of soda and beer cans that we found, for some reason there were 13 Diet Pepsi cans on the short strip that we cleaned. Is there some reason that particular brand is so often tossed out of car windows?
The only other item of note is an old sock that I came across. As I recently finished reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to Rowen, I picked it up and used my Dobby voice to yell out, "Master has presented Dobby with clothes! Dobby is free!"
Rowen thought that I was hilarious.