[Slugman]

My hobby is patrolling the Lake Washington Ship Canal for trash, floating, on the bottom, or the shore. These pics represent my 2022 efforts, maybe one is from late 2021. I focus on the Arboretum and Union Bay natural area, Gasworks park, and Fremont canal park. While I am always prepared to pick up trash, with bag and grabber, most of my haul has been on canoe trips specifically to harvest trash.

[Slugman]

Today, a major haul from the Samammish river. I used the Tom Sawyer “it ain’t every day you get to whitewash a fence” trick to get some kayaking friends to get the job half done before I even started. I spent 3.5 hours brush bashing in a canoe, playing a game of “let’s see how far I can lean over” trying to reach uncooperative balls. At the end my canoe was full of broken sticks and branches, many crawling with spiders. Thanks, God.

[Slugman]

Another haul today at the Arboretum area. 2.5 hours of digging beer cans out of the muddy bottom, and fishing up plastic bags and other crap. Plus 2 hours of regular paddling, and an hour round trip to drag the canoe on wheels from the Graham visitor center to Foster point.

[lookout bob]

Slugman....I deeply appreciate your efforts as I am a frequent user of those areas. I hope your volunteerism stimulates more people to spend some time to clean up our public areas and show some appreciation for them by curbing their trashing of areas. Many many thanks and keep up the good work.

[Slugman]

Please don’t quote that horrid sky hiker. He’s not even capable of reading the title of this thread before posting. The thread asks people to pick up trash, not to stop littering. His trashing of this thread is therefore doubly ridiculous. Then he posts the nonsense that you can’t pick up trash if you are too stupid to take action against a disease. What kind of person attacks a thread asking people to pick up litter?

[Mike Collins]

Slugman…Thank you for your community service. You are not alone with your efforts. For several years now when I go biking I pick up the cans/bottles/what-nots that I pass along the way. My circuit is Newport Way, Lakemont, and Coal Creek Parkway. Each year hundreds upon hundreds of things are picked up. The photo shows you the recyclables collected this past week.

[Cyclopath]

[crock]

Thank you to all who pick up garbage in the wilderness or in a local park or wherever. Your efforts are much appreciated.

[Cyclopath]

Snowy gathers trash from the neighborhood park and brings it to be rounded up and thrown away.

[Anne Elk]

Slugman - it appears that on some of your forays you collect a considerable amount of trash. What do you do with it afterward? My own trash can wouldn't be large enough to hold all of that plus the trash from my household, some weeks. Also - any idea what's up with the big tennis ball haul? Is there a dog park nearby the river?