Why I Pick Up Trash

Because garbage is everywhere. Because Iron Eyes Cody shed a tear. Because Lady Bird urged us to Keep America Beautiful, when keep was possible and before we could only try to restore the beauty.

Because we were driving to visit my grandparents when my father said he could tell the instant we crossed from Kentucky into Tennessee by the change in litter on the roadside.

Because a trashy yard is a sign of a trashy household.

Because white trash.

Because they’ll talk trash about you if you act that way...