Recycling Awareness
Today, we did some geocaching at a local trail. Generally, this trail is really clean and litter free. Today, we saw a lot of trash. So, we took the opportunity to clean up and at the same time, log a CITO cache.
We’ve come a long way since seeing a Native American crying as a passing car littered. However, according to the Clean Air Council, the average American generates over four pounds of trash a day. If you’ve done CITO caches, you hate plastic bottles, plastic film, and aluminum cans. Millions are thrown away each year.
As geocachers, we’re closer to the environment than many. We walk the ditches, the roadsides, and the trails. We go off trail, down in places where trash is likely to end up. We strive to go paperless when we geocache. That ton of paper not used, but recycled, saves 17 trees, three cubic yard of landfill spaced and 7,000 gallons of water. That’s a good thing.
Next time you’re at geocaching, log another find. Pack out some litter, and help make the world a better place.
