Albemarle needs to clean up litter

Rosemary Balister Albemarle County
Published: June 26, 2008

I have been looking around Hillsdale Drive where I live. Litter is strewn everywhere, especially beside the bus stops.

The poison ivy on the path to Food Lion from Branchlands by the kindergarten is thriving and may soon reach the fence where children play.

The trees by the impoundment pond still have some bagworm cases, although I and a few dedicated Sierra Club volunteers have removed several tons.

After any storm, all sorts of objects float merrily down the channel, clogging the drainage pipes. 

Food Lion has taken a step to reduce the amount of plastic bags impaled on shrubs by issuing reusable bags but if it could manage to install recycling bins, that would help. 

Last year in an effort to Keep America Beautiful I removed 20 bags of the poison ivy.

Having paid my property taxes to the county, and with corneal transplants in both eyes, I should not be doing this!