Dear editor,
I am sick and tired of people throwing their trash out the windows of vehicles along city streets, highways and country roads.
My husband, John Kress, even with stage 3 cancer, would walk up and down the gravel road to pick up trash until he didn’t have the strength to do so.
I now do the same thing on my road, on the highway and even in town.
I have picked up large boxes on Highway 54 three times in the past two years. Plastic is worse for the environment than glass. When I was a kid we’d get paid to turn in our empty pop bottles.
Oceans have “trash islands” twice the size of Texas.
When will people realize their trash hurts the environment not only for animals but their children and grandchildren?
— Alzina Kress,
Iola, Kan.
