Did litterpicking on the road near my church

I went out and did some litter picking on 30th December on the motorway entrance that is near my church. The road in question had been plagued by a massive amount of junk, cans, bottles and sandwhich packets, to name but a few of the items. Since I had the whole morning to myself, I had a choice, vacumn the house or litter pick, and I was determined to get rid of all the rubbish at the road once and for all. It took around two trips between the road and home to produce 10 separate bags of litter which has been left around the back entrance of my house. It wasn't comfortable to brave through the thorn bushes which caused my several nicks and scratches on my hands and arms. Before my second return to home to deposit what I picked up another person actually approached me offering some help, which I accepted. After my lunch of turkey soup, which my Mum encouraged to have, to have something warm in my stomach and taking a pair of gloves. I returned to pick up even more rubbish, to find the man at the bottom of the road picking up rubbish nearer to the church. Unfortunately, he soon told me his grabber broke and resorted to pick up with his hands. I didn't stop until around 4:00pm as it was getting dark and therefore not safe to continue, the road in question gets busy, especially at that time and there are no side pavements. I picked up another 5 bags, while picking up a metal pole, a bucket and other junk. The only thing that was still there, beyond the odd packet or such was a pair of tyres that are almost completely green with mose on one side where there are thorn bushes and a fence to bar the way the to  and on the other side where the trees are there is a wooden pallet that is usually used in warehouses

After all this I phoned Steve, who I remember was one of the council members, only to end up talking to his wife leslie. When I told her the amount of rubbish I picked up her first word was "disgraceful". My father is intending to create an article on the local newspaper addressing the situation and expressing gratitude to me for cleaning up the area.

Sadly, I suspect that it will not be long before litter will return to the road in question. In fact when I drove by the same road on my way to work I saw a coke can that surely wouldn't have been there this morning, otherwise I would've picked it up. I also know that there is another road that is in deperate need of clearing up and not just lots of soft drink cans and bottles but may also have many items that are rusting in the dirt. Unfortunately the road in question is even more dangerous then the road near the church as it has multiple blind turns and no pavements.

While I love to clean up streets and areas that have been used as dumping grounds for multiple gatherings and such, I find the whole problem of litter just disgusting, why do so many people seem content on just chucking their litter out of their car or just dumping it on the side of the road? It really sickens me. I hope to clear up more litter in other places in the near future.

At any case Happy New year.