Cape Cod Times
Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.
Sherry Greene-Starr lives about 100 feet from the railroad tracks in West Barnstable. She’s always taken walks along the tracks, but during the pandemic she’s strolled the route more frequently.
The tracks have been strewn with trash for years, she said, but recently she’s noticed more litter than usual.
“There’s just garbage everywhere,” said Greene-Starr, who is married to Barnstable Town Councilor Gordon Starr of Precinct 1.
Precinct 11 Councilor Kristine Clark also noticed litter piling up along the route taken by a Mass Coastal Railroad train that carries the Cape’s trash from the waste transfer station in Yarmouth to SEMASS, a waste-to-energy facility in Rochester.
FALL RIVER No trash is good trash, according to Mike O’Sullivan. And that includes the stuff that’s not overly conspicuous.
“It’s our community, and it doesn t matter whether you can see it or not,” Sullivan said.
The co-chief executive of One SouthCoast Chamber was referring to a gully of refuse that has accumulated behind and below his Fall River chamber of commerce building on Pocasset Street.
The subterranean collection of coffee cups, cardboard and face masks is wedged against a chain link fence separating Interstate 195 from the chamber’s parking lot.
O’Sullivan says although it’s not visible to passersby on Pocasset Street, drivers entering I-195 East from a nearby ramp can catch a glimpse of the mess.