VANCOUVER --
Nick Pilon just couldn’t take it anymore. He grew up in Abbotsford, B.C. and has lived there his entire life.
“I never remember it like this,” Pilon said in a phone interview with CTV News. “It’s gotten so bad.”
By “it,” he means garbage. The unsightly, unhealthy, and sometimes smelly items that litter the landscape, left behind by others who just couldn’t be bothered to clean up after themselves.
So he took matters, and trash, into his own hands. For several months, Pilon has been donning big boots, gloves and a safety vest and bagging mounds and mounds of trash riddling Abbotsford’s neighbourhoods.