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A local hero who cleans up the environment
While driving south on Merivale Road from Country Place to Fallowfield Road on Sunday, I noticed dozens of tied-off clear plastic garbage bags filled with refuse along the shoulder of both sides of the road at 50 metre intervals. Included were a few tires and rims, a jug of used motor oil and bits of furniture.
At Fallowfield Road I came across a man methodically scouring the ditch with a litter fork, accompanied by a wheeled dolly with a bag-lined bin on it. This man had single-handedly gathered up a staggering amount of garbage over a distance of one and a half kilometres. And here I’d blindly believed for years that Ottawa roadsides were green and tidy because Canadians are conscientious and didn’t callously toss pop bottles, coffee cups, food wrappers and garbage out of moving vehicles.