As I drive around Sussex County, I am very dismayed at the amount of trash on the sides of most of our roads.
I really think it has reached a crisis point. Do you like what you see? Do you think your visitors get a positive reaction when they come and drive down our roads? What ever happened to civic responsibilities and pride in where you live?
Last week, I watched a gentleman picking up trash along Long Neck Road over a two-day period. He had bag after bag filled with trash.
So, inspired by Earth Day this Sunday, and to show my support for this civic-minded gentleman, I decided to do my part and pick up trash along a marshy section of Long Neck Road. After two hours of work, numerous bulging trash bags, and only cleaning about 50 yards of roadway, I had to stop.
I had no idea how much trash was there, and realized this was not a job for just one or two people to do.
Southern Sussex County thrives on the tourism business. If I was coming here for the first time, driving down our trash-strewn roads, I certainly would think twice about coming here again.
Where are our elected officials and community leaders on this issue? Why haven't church groups, civic organizations, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, etc. organized cleanup days as part of their local civic responsibilities?
Drive down most of the roads in Sussex County. Really look at the amount of trash strewn along the roadsides, and tell me it doesn't disgust you.
We need to come together as a community, take pride in where we live, stop littering and clean up. There are many trailer park communities in southern Sussex, but that doesn't mean we are truly trailer trash, does it? Everyone needs to take pride in where we live!
Nick Eggleston
Long Neck
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